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Nous Research, the startup behind the open-source Hermes agent, is finalizing a new round of funding led by Robot Ventures, with significant participation from USV and other prominent investors at a $1.5 billion valuation, according to three sources with knowledge of the deal.

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Nous Research released NousCoder-14B, an open-source coding model matching larger proprietary systems, trained in four days on 48 B200 GPUs.

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MarkTechPost

Nous Research added a Blank Slate setup mode to Hermes Agent, allowing users to start with minimal tools and selectively enable capabilities, with configuration pinned to disk to prevent silent updates.

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TechTimes

Nous Research ships async subagent support for Hermes Agent, eliminating the blocking architecture and enabling concurrent multi-agent orchestration.

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SpendNode

Nous Research connected its Hermes agent to Stripe for autonomous payments with configurable safety limits, enabling the agent to make purchases, pay APIs, and provision SaaS without human intervention.

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MarkTechPost

Nous Research shipped a Profile Builder for Hermes Agent, a guided flow to set up agent profiles with identity, model, skills, and MCP servers.

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Digg

Nous Research launched an open-source Hermes autonomous agent for local use, with details shared on X.

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NVIDIA announces, via its official X account, the addition of Nous Research to its Nemotron Coalition.

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Digg

Nous Research announces partnership with Nvidia's Nemotron Coalition to advance open frontier foundation models.

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Digg

Nous Research joined Nvidia's Nemotron Coalition to advance open AI models, providing free access to Nemotron 3 Ultra on Nous Portal.

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HeadsUpAI

Nous Research launches Nous Portal, a unified subscription gateway for Hermes Agent consolidating access to over 300 models through one billing interface.

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The Decoder

Nous Research released Hermes Desktop, a native app for macOS, Windows, and Linux, with persistent memory and multi-platform support.

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ForkLog

Nous Research equipped its Hermes AI agent with memory, skills, task scheduler, and a desktop client for macOS and Windows.

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Bitnewsbot

Nous Research officially launched Hermes Desktop, a native app for macOS, Windows, and Linux, making its AI agent accessible to non-technical users.

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MarkTechPost

Nous Research released Hermes Desktop, a native cross-platform front end for Hermes Agent v0.15.2 with streaming tool output.

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AI Weekly

Nous Research ships Hermes Desktop v0.15.2, a native app for multiple platforms with persistent memory and multi-channel support.

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Startup Fortune

Nous Research launched Hermes Desktop, making its open-source agent available as a native desktop app.

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HeadsUpAI

Nous Research integrated Hermes Agent with NVIDIA RTX Spark superchips and OpenShell runtime for secure local execution.

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AI-trends.today

Hermes Agent introduced Tool Search, a feature that defers MCP tool schemas to reduce context window usage, improving accuracy on Anthropic evaluations from 49% to 74%.

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Artificial Intelligence in Plain English

Tutorial on building an autonomous clipping agent using Hermes, Vugola, and Postiz for scheduling and distributing social media clips.

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DeepLearning.AI

OpenClaw's popularity is challenged by Hermes Agent, which offers self-improving skills and sophisticated memory.

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XDA Developers

A technical comparison arguing Hermes Agent outperforms OpenClaw in security and reliability for self-hosted AI assistants.

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MarkTechPost

Nous Research proposes Lighthouse Attention, a training-only method that speeds up pretraining by 1.4-1.7x at long contexts.

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Startup Fortune

Analysis of Nous Research's Token Superposition Training (TST) and its potential to reduce LLM pretraining costs by up to 2.5x.

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CryptoBriefing

Nous Research integrates SuperGrok subscriptions into Hermes Agent using OAuth, simplifying access to Grok models.

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