We are excited to join Nvidia's Nemotron Coalition of leading AI labs working together to advance open frontier foundation models.
To celebrate we have partnered with @nvidia and @nebiustf to provide 2 free weeks of the new Nemotron 3 Ultra model on the Nous Portal!
The next evolution of Hermes Agent is here!
Introducing Hermes Desktop: everything you love about Hermes, now native on your machine.
First demoed in Jensen's GTC keynote, it's now in public preview.
We have worked with @nvidia to integrate their official Agent Skills catalog into the Hermes Skills Hub.
These skills teach your agent how to use CUDA-X libraries, Omniverse and Physical AI workflows, NeMo training and inference tools, and other platform components.
We have been working closely with @nvidia to ensure Hermes Agent works smoothly on their new @NVIDIARTXSpark superchip and integrates with the new OpenShell runtime, which connects Hermes to @Microsoft's security primitives.
Watch our feature in the big announcement at Computex:
Today we release a study on decoupling the benefits of subword tokenization for language model training, by simulating each suspected benefit one at a time inside a 1.7B byte-level pretraining pipeline.
We formulate seven hypotheses for why subword LLMs outperform byte-level LLMs (covering computational efficiency, structural priors over subword boundaries and positions, and the optimization objective) and implement each as a controlled intervention against a byte-level baseline. Three of the seven move the validation loss at this scale; the rest either have negligible effect or hurt.
Validated at 1.7B parameters on fineweb-edu with a LLaMA-3 architecture, with 68M-parameter replications in the appendix.
The work was led by Théo Gigant, Bowen Peng, and Jeffrey Quesnelle.
Paper: https://t.co/Blk7YdVLnc
Hermes Agent is now #1 on the Global @OpenRouter token rankings.
While our journey together has just begun, we'd like to take this opportunity to thank our contributors, supporters, and users for all they have done to get us this far.
Hermes Agent now has multi-agent via the Kanban, new in v0.12.0.
Agents claim tasks from a board, work in parallel, and hand off when blocked. You watch progress and unblock from one easy view instead of juggling terminals.
We asked it to plan and make this video about itself: