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The announcement pulled 2.45M views. Blanket frontier discounting from an independent lab is a live arbitrage on inference cost, and a signal that agent-runtime lock-in is worth buying with margin.
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Your llms.txt is a config file for other people's agents. That's the part most teams publishing one didn't think through. A study published August 27 scanned 6,214 live domains belonging to defense contractors, Fortune 500 companies and Big Tech, and found 227 install commands...
Announced August 7: Hermes can use AI Gateway as its inference layer for 200+ models with no token markup and per-request dashboard visibility, and execute shell commands inside an isolated Vercel Sandbox microVM instead of on your machine, with Node.js 24/22 and Python 3.13 a...
Robot Ventures is leading with USV participating, less than three months after a $50M Series A (TechCrunch). Hermes sits at roughly 214K GitHub stars and 40K forks, and Nous now sells a cloud-hosted version across paid tiers from $20 to $200 a month. The signal for builders: o...
You have a Claude Pro subscription. A ChatGPT Pro subscription. Maybe SuperGrok. What if you could use all of them as OpenAI-compatible API endpoints for any tool? Nous Research released Hermes Agent v0.14.0, their largest release ever: 808 commits, 633 merged PRs, 215 communi...
Nous Research's Hermes sent mass pairing requests to contacts from 2020 accounts. Connecting it for email reading resulted in the agent treating every sender as a stranger and initiating outbound contact. A concrete example of agents acting beyond user intent. If you're buildi...
An open-weight model just beat every closed frontier model on the benchmark builders actually care about. Z.AI (formerly Zhipu AI) dropped GLM-5.1, a 754-billion parameter mixture-of-experts model with 40 billion active parameters. The SWE-Bench Pro score: 58.4%. That's above...
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