Aleksandr_1

In God We Trust.

[Nous Research @NousResearch]

Introducing Arete-27B: Qwen3.8-27B, post-trained to reinforce Western values.

Chinese open models are currently the strongest available, but they ship with state-aligned behavior in the weights. We built an 803-prompt eval across seven value categories, including freedom of expression, democracy, and privacy, and measured how often a model adopts China’s party line.

After fine-tuning on roughly 53 million tokens, Arete-27B's propaganda rate fell from 22% to 1%, in line with the Western models we tested. Its Hermes Bench score shows no significant performance tradeoffs.

The values in an open model are one fine-tune away.

Our eval, weights, and training data are available now along with the full blog post: https://t.co/iAOANQTVZ6

[Teknium 🪽 @Teknium]

It’s time for another hackathon!

This time, we want you to push the limits of our plugins system. Learn more below.

[Nous Research @NousResearch]

> hermes migrate grok-bot

[Aleksandr_1 @AleksandrSpb9]

@Teknium @dillonrolnick @witcheer @theemozilla @karan4d @mark_s ❤️

[Nous Research @NousResearch]

Tomorrow gonna be a movie fr

(If they made movies about Discord groups that do foundational research and post-training then blossom into companies that proliferate the most widely used open source agent harness in the world that host an annual conference every year except it's actually more like a big party slash beta test slash merch distribution mechanism)

[Teknium 🪽 @Teknium]

All nous portal paid tier subs now come with a Hermes Agent instance and computer for it to use!

Easily connect to your hermes agent so you never have to leave your laptop open to keep things moving on any messenger app and one click login in the desktop app to connect to your Hermes Agent.

This will be quite critical for the Mobile App! :)

[Nous Research @NousResearch]

Jensen closed his GTC Berlin 2026 keynote with this Hermes Agent demo as the finale.

He introduced it by saying the way to build an agent is to ask an agent to build it for you, so he installed and set up a customized Hermes in one prompt.

Then he used Hermes, running on @nvidia RTX Spark, to create a simulated training environment for the @huggingface Microduck. Hermes planned an obstacle course with Nemotron and had GPT-6 Astra build it using FreeCAD, Omniverse libraries, Blender, Newton, and Isaac Lab. Hermes trained thousands of simulated ducks on that course until the validated policy was ready to run on the real robot in the physical world.

At Nous, we believe open source is a practical tool as much as a philosophical ideal. It gives users the ability to build powerful, complex workflows chaining numerous local+cloud models, devices, and tools themselves instead of waiting for a company to enable them.

[Teknium 🪽 @Teknium]

Hermes Agent v0.22.0 is now live!

The highlights:

A much smoother easier to use onboarding - you don't even need to hook up a provider to get started - just install and start working!

Connectors - much easier to connect with any app, just click install and login - and done.

Stable Channel for Hermes Update - no more update anxiety and get releases that are tested much more thoroughly than a random commit, or switch back to main channel if you want the bleeding edge.

Over 2,500 people contributed to this version, thank you all!

See the full changelog here, it's our biggest version over version change ever:

https://t.co/rOPwklptGI

[Aleksandr_1 @AleksandrSpb9]

@NousResearch @dmayhem93 @WSJ @nvidia @M12vc @SamsungNext @robotventures @usv @ycombinator @MenloVentures 👏

[Nous Research @NousResearch]

As reported in the @WSJ, we have raised a Series B to bring Hermes Agent to new frontiers (and, yes, build a mobile app)

Thank you to our investors including @nvidia @M12vc @SamsungNext @robotventures @usv @ycombinator @MenloVentures, among others

https://t.co/1BdQjJD90p

[Teknium 🪽 @Teknium]

We just launched Hermes Index!

This combines the scores of our new HermesBench and 3 other leading and relevant benchmarks for agents to give every Hermes Agent user a way to find both the best model at a given time, as well as the best model at a given price point!

Check it out

[Nous Research @NousResearch]

You can use Hermes Agent for a lot more than flight booking. Here are 326 use cases from real users:

https://t.co/1XFiTJF7Zz

[Aleksandr_1 @AleksandrSpb9]

@NousResearch Ordered! A great +1 to go with my Nous hoodie. Thanks, guys!

[Aleksandr_1 @AleksandrSpb9]

@NousResearch @OpenAI When @AnthropicAI ?😅

[Aleksandr_1 @AleksandrSpb9]

@Teknium Wow 🤩

[Teknium 🪽 @Teknium]

Nous on stage

[Marik 🐉🔴🔴🔴 @mika8002]

1/7
MEXC turned a 2-for-1 stock split into a -957% ROI on my futures position

No, APH didn't crash 50%

The stock simply split 2:1

My entry: $156.37
Post-split price: ~$79
MEXC displayed ROI: -965%
I assumed it was a bug
It wasn't

What happened next is much worse 🧵

[Teknium 🪽 @Teknium]

It's time! You can now access the same machine your Hermes Agent does visually and interactively with a live desktop passthrough for every remote gateway it's supported on!

[Nous Research @NousResearch]

You can now watch your agents work live as Hermes Desktop streams the screen of any bot's screen or session in real time.

Watch it drive a browser, type into a terminal, or open a window. Take over anytime to interact with the Bot Screen or type credentials and seamlessly hand back off when you're done.

[Aleksandr_1 @AleksandrSpb9]

@NousResearch @Teknium 👏