NousResearch
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Nous Research is an open-source AI company founded in 2023 by Jeffrey Quesnelle, Karan Malhotra, Teknium, and Shivani Mitra, growing out of a community of researchers collaborating on Discord and GitHub. The organization focuses on developing open-weights language models and decentralized training infrastructure, positioning itself as a leading force in the American open-source AI movement. In April 2025, Paradigm led a $50 million Series A at a reported $1 billion valuation.
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Self-improving agent that creates skills from experience and keeps a persistent model of users across sessions.
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Nous Research adds Bot Mode to Hermes Desktop. Agent profiles become named bots, each carrying its own role, model, memory, skills and avatar, and bots can call any model or hand work to each other.
Nous Research ships real-profile browsing for Hermes Agent: it operates a managed copy of your existing Chrome profile, inheriting cookies and logins rather than starting from a blank browser. Solves agentic auth — and hands the agent your session blast radius.
Nous Research is serving Ox Alpha at no cost through Nous Portal for a limited window, claiming capacity well beyond what anyone will use. No benchmarks or pricing for afterward are disclosed, so the practical move is to run your own evals while access is open.
Nous Research tagged version 0.21.0 of Hermes Agent, its open agent CLI, under the name Pantheon. Upgrades run through 'hermes update' and the itemized changelog is published with the GitHub release rather than in the post itself.
Hermes replaces its twelve browser tools with a single Browser Use-driven one: the agent writes a script instead of a tool call per click, cutting token use 48-66% with no accuracy drop.
Hermes Agent ships with its own remote computer, and the pitch is that you are not locked into it: connect any provider, subscription or model, run it free on your own machine, or rent a cloud instance for a few dollars a month against a 200 dollar subscription.
Hermes adds /loop, which re-runs a prompt on an interval in the same session; leave the interval off and it paces itself, checking often at first and backing off while nothing changes.
Hermes Agent Desktop gains Bot Mode: instead of ephemeral sessions, you define persistent bots with jobs, descriptions and avatars that can hand work to each other. Nous opened a public beta window for it.
Hermes profiles become portable: /export saves skills, memory, persona, crons, plugins and settings to one credential-stripped file, and /import restores the whole setup.
Nous Research shipped a one-click setup path in Hermes Desktop. It reads the host hardware, chooses a local model sized for it, pulls the weights and configures the runtime. The flow surfaces on first launch and remains reachable from the Providers section in Settings.
Hermes adds a credential firewall for Docker sandboxes: the sandbox runs on stand-in tokens and a local proxy swaps in real keys at the network boundary, so leaked sandbox tokens are useless.
Hermes gains an optional skill for tldraw's offline desktop whiteboard: it reads the open canvas, edits it live, and can embed a script so the drawing opens with working buttons and state.
Hermes now runs an evaluator over a skill at install time, checking for personal data, leaked secrets, Unicode smuggling, licensing problems and security issues before the install is confirmed. Pointed at its own bundled skills first, the check produced fixes to eleven of them.
Hermes Agent adds HUD Mode, a transparent overlay that stays up over a running application so you can prompt and ask about what is on screen mid-session. Demoed over a game, but the pattern is general: persistent agent presence layered on the app you are already in.
Nous Research expanded the Hermes Desktop App's built-in MCP connector catalog by 44 services — Cloudflare, Datadog, GitLab, Metabase, Railway and DeepWiki among them — with one-click setup, and a Tool Search tool so activated connectors don't consume context.
Nous Research shipped an official Box skill for Hermes. The agent acts as the user within permissions they set: bulk file and version management, document data search and extraction, and queries against the cloud file system as a governed content layer.
Nous is keeping Tencent Hunyuan's HY3 available at no cost on its portal through the end of August, extending an earlier free window. A short, dated evaluation opening for anyone benchmarking large open models.
Hermes Agent v0.21.0 adds persistent multi-gateway connections to the desktop client. Any combination of remote gateways, Hermes Cloud instances or local agents, can be attached at once, with every bot and chat visible across all of them.
Nous Research shipped automated local model setup in Hermes Desktop: it profiles the machine's hardware, selects a fitting model, then handles download and runtime configuration. Rolling out for Hermes Agent on NVIDIA systems running Windows and Linux.