Release23d 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%).
Industry29d 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.
Tooling61d ago
Hermes Agent: resume in-progress Claude Code or Codex sessions with one command
Hermes Agent cofounder Teknium confirms hermes --resume @(claude or codex) can pick up an in-progress Claude Code or Codex session inside Hermes, so you keep the same context when switching tools.
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