Industry27d ago
Nous Research raises $90M Series B at $1.5B to take MIT-licensed Hermes Agent into businesses
On Oct 7 Nous Research, maker of the open-source Hermes Agent, confirmed a $90M Series B at a $1.5B valuation led by Robot Ventures, with NVIDIA, Microsoft's M12, Samsung, USV, Y Combinator and Menlo among backers, bringing total funding to $158M. Nous says Hermes Agent has been cloned over 24M times and drives about 2.5% of global token usage (internal estimate). The money funds Hermes for Businesses: a team tier with shared balance and skill library, and an Enterprise edition on customer-controlled infrastructure with SSO and SLAs, plus a mobile app.
Release21d ago
Hermes Agent v0.22.0: keyless guided onboarding, one-click local llama.cpp models, Gmail/Linear/Notion connectors and a 600-plugin catalog
Nous Research shipped Hermes Agent v0.22.0, "The Threshold Release", on Oct 14 (UTC). Fresh desktop installs open a guided setup chat on a free trial model (nous/welcome) with no API key, connectors reach Gmail, Linear and Notion through the Nous tool gateway, a one-click llama.cpp runtime runs local models, installs now follow tested SemVer stable releases, and desktop builds are signed (including the Microsoft Store). The source tree shrank from about 1.06M to 698K lines (−34%).
Tooling49d ago
Nous: Hermes Agent used 1,393 subagents in 19 hours to cut a million-line Python repo by 34.4%
Nous Research (@NousResearch) reported that on Sep 2 @Teknium asked Hermes Agent to clean ~1.06M lines of Python; 1,393 parallel subagents finished in 19 hours, shrinking the repo to ~698k lines (−34.4%), collapsing 37 god files to 6, at about $19,302 run cost versus nearly $2M estimated eng hours. Details: nousresearch.com/refactoring-hermes-with-1393-agents.
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