Hermes Agent v0.23.0: The Hearth Release
Highlights:
- Desktop in a browser tab
- One gateway for every conversation
- /Rewind
- Group Chats with automatic routing
- Spend limits for paid tools
- Lighter and faster
and more
Changelog below
Hy4 from Tencent scores 35 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5 and is the #2 model from a China-based AI lab
Hy4 is the latest model from @TencentHunyuan and is the successor to Hy3 released earlier this year. It scores 35 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5, equal with Grok 4.7 (xhigh) and 1 point behind Claude Haiku 5.5 (max). Hy4 is the #2 model from a China-based AI lab, behind only Kimi K3.1 Pro, which scores 46. Hy4 is priced at $0.834/$2.501 per 1M input/output tokens.
Key takeaways:
➤ Hy4 excels at agentic coding tasks. Hy4 scores 31% on FrontierCode 2.0, compared to 32% for Claude Fable 5.1 (max). It is the leading model from a China-based AI lab, with DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (max) scoring 28% and Kimi K3.1 Pro scoring 25%. On Terminal-Bench 4.0, it scores 37%, the fourth-highest score among models from China-based AI labs
➤ Hy4 outperforms its peers on knowledge and reasoning. Hy4 achieves accuracy of 50% on AA-Omniscience v1.1, 1 point ahead of Kimi K3.1 Pro, but has a high hallucination rate of 89% compared to Kimi K3.1 Pro’s 37%. On HLE-Diamond, it scores 33% compared to Kimi K3.1 Pro’s 37%
➤ Hy4 offers a competitive Capability vs. Cost trade-off compared to to peers. With a Cost per Intelligence Index Task of $0.78, Hy4 (35) is 10-times cheaper than Grok 4.7 (xhigh, 35) and 13-times cheaper than Qwen3.8 Max (0902) (34) but almost twice as expensive as Claude Haiku 5.5 (max, 36)
Other model details:
➤ Context window: 1 million tokens
➤ Pricing: $0.834/$2.501 per 1M input/output tokens. Cache reads $0.042 per 1M tokens
➤ Multimodality: Text and image input, with text output
We have a gif for you—ChatGPT Images 2.6 is here.
ChatGPT Images 2.6 can turn your prompts and pictures into animated GIFs.
You can also keep reference images of yourself, pets, and characters ready to reuse in new creations...no need to upload them again.
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Images 2.6 is available today in ChatGPT, and Codex across all tiers on web, desktop, and mobile.
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Background subagents in Claude Code now use less of your usage limit.
A running subagent updates its status line every 30 seconds, and each update used to re-read its whole conversation. Now Haiku 5.5 writes it from short notes instead, so each update costs about 99% less.
Announcing the next version of Artificial Analysis API Performance Benchmarking: Time per Task is now our headline performance metric, measuring how long a model takes to complete a task rather than how fast it streams
The update applies to the ~1,000 serverless endpoints we benchmark multiple times a day for speed, latency and caching.
Key changes:
➤ Time per Task is now the headline metric to compare models: as workloads become more agentic, the time to complete a task matters more than speed per token. A model that is fast per token but verbose can take longer than a slower model that uses fewer tokens. Time per Task divides a model's output tokens per Intelligence Index task by its End-to-End Output Speed.
➤ End-to-End Output Speed covers the full request: speed is now measured from sending the request to receiving the final token. That includes the wait before the first token (prefill, and reasoning for models that hide it) as well as generation. Output tokens now come from each provider's API-reported counts instead of the o200k_base tokenizer, and we monitor for discrepancies in reported counts.
➤ Agentic workloads are now part of every measurement: we benchmark short, document-length and long-context prompts, plus multi-turn sessions across coding and knowledge work. Headline figures are the average across these workloads over the past 5 days.
➤ API default effort is now tracked alongside highest effort: most developers run models at the effort level each lab sets as its API default, so we now benchmark key models at that setting as well as at their highest effort. Effort names are not comparable across labs, so we use each lab's own default rather than one shared setting.
Key takeaways:
➤ OpenAI models make up most of the Intelligence vs. Time per Task Pareto frontier despite slower output speeds: across effort levels, GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol hold the frontier from ~45 to ~55 on the Intelligence Index. At max effort, GPT-6 Astra runs at 51 tokens/s but finishes a task in ~17 minutes, against ~26 for Claude Opus 5.5 (max, 111 tokens/s) and ~29 minutes for Gemini 4 Carbon (high, 71 tokens/s), because it uses ~50k output tokens per task against ~120k to ~170k.
➤ API default effort cuts Time per Task by ~3 to 5x and Cost per Task by ~2 to 4x for GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and Claude Opus 5.5: all three default to medium effort, which scores ~5 to 11 points lower on the Intelligence Index in exchange. Claude Opus 5.5 falls from ~26 minutes and $10.04 per task at max to ~6.8 minutes and $2.45 at medium effort.
➤ Endpoints that optimize for decode speed alone see the largest drop in End-to-End Output Speed: high decode speeds can come at the cost of latency, for example by queuing requests to run at lower batch sizes, or by holding output and sending it in a single burst. Both lengthen the wait before the first token, which End-to-End Output Speed now counts.