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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.

Nous Research raises $90M Series B at $1.5B to take MIT-licensed Hermes Agent into businesses

Key Takeaways

  • Round: $90M Series B at $1.5B, led by Robot Ventures; $158M raised in total (TechCrunch)
  • Scale: Hermes Agent cloned 24M+ times, ~2.5% of global token usage per Nous's internal estimate (Nous note)
  • GitHub: NousResearch/hermes-agent has ~252K stars and ~54K forks, MIT, latest release v2026.9.24 (GitHub, checked 2026-10-08)
  • Revenue: ~$36M annualized by mid-September, targeting $100M+ by year-end, per WSJ
  • Business tier: shared balance, per-member caps, team skill library; Enterprise runs on customer infrastructure with SSO and SLAs (Hermes Business)
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DHH: Alibaba Cloud joins Omacom as founding patron with $3M; Omarchy coming to Qwen Book

DHH (@dhh) announced Alibaba Cloud as a Founding Corporate Patron of the Omacom Foundation: $3 million in funding, collaboration on Omarchy China, and bringing Omarchy to the newly announced Qwen Book. He argues agentic computers need a native agentic OS. Details: omarchy.org news post.

DHH: Alibaba Cloud joins Omacom as founding patron with $3M; Omarchy coming to Qwen Book

Key Takeaways

  • Alibaba Cloud commits $3M as an Omacom Foundation founding corporate patron.
  • Collaboration covers Omarchy China and shipping Omarchy onto the new Qwen Book.
  • Thesis: agentic computers need a native agentic OS (Omarchy).
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Enterprise Software Agent Platform Factory Raises M at B Valuation

Autonomous enterprise software development platform Factory secured million in fresh funding, reaching a billion valuation. Its specialized Droid agents handle end-to-end Jira tickets, write code, run CI/CD tests, and manage PR reviews autonomously for global enterprises.

Key Takeaways

  • B valuation underscores massive enterprise appetite for unattended software engineering
  • Droid agents interface directly with Jira, GitHub Enterprise, and corporate service meshes
  • Proves task-oriented autonomous coding agents command premium enterprise contracts
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Comp AI Secures M Series A to Deploy Autonomous Security & Compliance Agents

Compliance automation startup Comp AI raised million in Series A funding to scale its autonomous security agents. The agents run continuous 24/7 audits across cloud environments, code repos, and IAM policies to generate SOC 2 and ISO 27001 reports autonomously.

Key Takeaways

  • Delivers unattended continuous compliance monitoring and audit trail synthesis
  • Integrates deeply with GitHub, AWS, GCP, and Okta to remediate permission drifts
  • Highlights how specialized vertical agents are disrupting manual compliance consulting
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Mistral AI Partners with Mozilla for Firefox Smart Window and Closes €3B Series D

Mistral AI announced a strategic partnership with Mozilla to power the new Firefox Smart Window with privacy-preserving local and cloud models. Mistral also closed a landmark €3 billion Series D funding round, elevating its valuation beyond €21 billion.

Key Takeaways

  • Partners with Mozilla to build Firefox Smart Window with local-first privacy safeguards
  • Combines on-device small models with cloud-grade Mistral Large hybrid inference
  • Secures €3B Series D funding, marking the largest European tech venture round
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Factory raises $200M at $5B valuation to scale self-improving enterprise software development

Factory (@FactoryAI) announced a $200M raise at a $5B valuation (over $400M total funding), more than tripling its $1.5B April valuation, to scale self-improving software development and autonomous coding agents (Droids) for the enterprise.

Key Takeaways

  • Factory raised $200M at a $5B valuation.
  • Total funding tops $400M; valuation more than triples the $1.5B April mark.
  • Capital targets enterprise self-improving software development and coding agents.
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OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and 100+ orgs call for a cyber-defense surge

OpenAI, joined by Anthropic, AWS, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, and more than 100 other organizations, called for a global surge in cyber defense while a “defenders’ window” still exists—using the same model progress to find and fix years of accumulated vulnerabilities before AI-enabled attacks scale. The open letter urges funding defensive AI, sharing threat intel, tightening access to sensitive systems, and hardening critical infrastructure. For anyone running unsandboxed evals, coding agents, or tool-using models, it is a post-incident signal from frontier labs that defensive tooling now sits on the same clock as capability.

Key Takeaways

  • OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, and 100+ others signed an open letter for a cyber-defense surge.
  • They argue a short “defenders’ window” remains to apply AI to finding and fixing accumulated vulnerabilities.
  • Asks include funding defensive AI, sharing intel, restricting sensitive access, and hardening critical infrastructure.
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