HERMES

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1. 7h
   Nous Research raises $90M at reported $1.2B–$1.5B valuation for enterprise Hermes

   Nous Research has raised $90M to build Hermes for Businesses, a commercial version of its open-source Hermes agent, with investors including Nvidia, Microsoft's M12, Samsung, Robot Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Y Combinator and Menlo Ventures, CEO Dillon Rolnick wrote. Nous did not disclose a valuation: WSJ, which first reported the news, was cited by Techmeme at $1.2B while The Next Web said $1.5B. Hermes was released under the MIT licence in February and has been downloaded more than 22 million times since, according to WSJ, while Nous says it has been cloned over 24 million times and estimates internally that it drives about 2.5% of global token usage.

   Techmeme · 🔥 17
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   HERMES: modular executable Dev-Primitives for software engineering agents

   An arXiv paper introduces Dev-Primitives, an abstraction that pairs each repository artifact — source files, configs, tests, dependencies — with a resident LLM, giving it an agent-native interface for natural-language reasoning, inter-component communication and localized self-modification. Built on top of it, the HERMES harness-engineering framework activates these primitives at repository scale via dependency-aware dynamic activation and a bug-diagnosis mechanism that maps execution evidence back to the components needing revision. The authors report HERMES beats matched baseline harnesses by 12.4% on average across four software engineering benchmarks, stays within 4.5% of a homogeneous GPT-5.6 Sol configuration even with Qwen3-8B Dev-Primitives, and cuts inference cost by 26.2% on Terminal-Bench 4.0.

   Hugging Face · Papers · 🔥 0

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