Hermes

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1. 5d
   Leash Bio releases Minos, an agent sandbox for verifiable scientific reasoning

   A Latent Space episode features Ian Quigley of Leash Bio, which uses DNA-encoded libraries (DELs) to collect high-throughput protein–small molecule interaction data. The show says that data can supply tens of thousands of "lab-in-the-loop" simulations for scientific RL by agents, and has matured into Minos, with Leash Bio releasing a full preprint, blog and open dataset the same day. The episode also says Hermes, trained only on Leash Bio's own data, keeps pace with Boltz on public benchmarks, and that in its Kaggle competition about 2,000 teams failed to beat chance on an unseen chemical library. These claims come from the podcast description; the preprint and dataset are not included in the supplied material.

   Latent Space · 🔥 0
2. Oct 11
   Nous Research raises $90M at $1.5B valuation for its Hermes AI agent

   Nous Research, the company behind the open-source Hermes agent framework, has raised $90 million at a $1.5 billion valuation in a round led by Robot Ventures, with investors including Nvidia, Microsoft's M12, Samsung and Y Combinator, according to a Cyzone report; cumulative funding now stands at $158 million. Nous says Hermes, released under the MIT license, has been cloned more than 24 million times, and it estimates that roughly 2.5% of global AI token usage comes from Hermes-related applications. Tencent's Lightweight Cloud team built LightVela on the Hermes agent with WeChat access, and Xiaomi's MiMo was an important model source for Hermes on OpenRouter; Nous reported about $36 million in annualized revenue as of mid-September 2026 and expects to top $100 million by year-end.

   创业邦 科技 · 🔥 0
3. Oct 8
   Natura unveils Interface, a $99 AI smart ring for summoning agents

   AI hardware startup Natura has announced Interface, a $99 smart ring that lets users summon AI agents with a press of the finger to complete tasks or capture notes without reaching for a phone. Natura says the ring connects to agents including Claude, ChatGPT, Meta Muse, Grok Bot, Instinct and Hermes, and that its NatureOS software lets users choose which agent handles a given task, with replies delivered through headphones, an iPhone Live Activity or the NatureOS app. Interface also tracks heart rate, resting heart rate, HRV, sleep stages, movement, steps and skin temperature; Natura claims 6-12 days of battery life and roughly 100 minutes to fully recharge. Preorders are expected to open next month, shipping in December or January, with a free initial period of three to six months followed by a $9 monthly subscription.

   TechCrunch AI · 🔥 0
4. Oct 8
   Asus ProArt P14 and P16 launch with Nvidia RTX Spark and Hermes agents

   Asus announced the ProArt P14 and ProArt P16 laptops, both built around Nvidia's RTX Spark superchip, which Asus says offers up to 1 PFLOP of FP4 AI compute and 128GB of unified memory for on-device model inference and AI agent workflows. Both machines also integrate Nous Research's open-source Hermes platform, which can chain desktop apps, terminals and local files for multi-step tasks with long-term memory and sandboxed environments. Pre-orders are open now, with availability on October 16 at 8pm; starting prices are NT$169,999 (P14) and NT$179,999 (P16), while the 128GB pre-order configurations cost NT$249,999 and NT$269,999. Asus also teased the ProArt GR1X Agent Computer, a desktop on-device AI hub, for launch in Taiwan this month.

   科技新报 · 🔥 0
5. Oct 7
   Nous Research raises $90M at $1.5B valuation, launches Hermes for Businesses

   Nous Research, maker of the open-source Hermes agent, raised a $90 million Series B led by Robot Ventures, with participation from Nvidia, Samsung, Union Square Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Y Combinator and 1789 Capital (The Next Web also lists Microsoft's M12). TechCrunch and The Wall Street Journal put the valuation at $1.5 billion, while Techmeme's headline says $1.2 billion; the company did not disclose a valuation itself. The money will fund "Hermes for Businesses," aimed at letting companies pick models by price and goal, keep AI usage private and own their company knowledge. Nous says Hermes has been cloned more than 24 million times since its February MIT-licensed release and drives roughly 2.5% of global AI token usage — its own estimate — while the Journal reported about $36 million in annualized revenue by mid-September and an expectation of passing $100 million by year-end.

   Techmeme · 🔥 0
6. Oct 5
   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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