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Step 5 Preview from @StepFun_ai is free on Nous Portal for the next week

600B total / 27B active MoE, 1M context, with vision

Step 5 Preview scored 33.89 on Hermes Index, the same score as GPT-6 Luna

Hemres Agnet

Hermes Agent, meet Step 5 Preview.

Our flagship model for agentic and professional work is now free for one week through @NousResearch’s Nous Portal.

Give it a spin with Hermes and show us what you build!

Hermes Agent is now live (and featured) in the @Microsoft Store for seamless one-click install.

More updates for the Windows ecosystem coming soon!

Advancing our mission to deliver ubiquitous powerful agents to everyone, Hermes Agent is on the new ASUS ProArt RTX Spark PCs: MuseTree and ComfyUI integrations plus local model support on up to 128 GB of unified memory.

A complete creative stack that runs on your own machine.

Rated E for Everyone

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

wsj.com/pro/venture-ca…

A lot of little things that help improve voice mode have been added to Hermes Agent this week!

Introducing Hermes Index: an average of benchmarks measuring model performance in Hermes Agent.

Our goal with Hermes Index is to better inform users choosing between models and to show labs how they perform in Hermes.

portal.nousresearch.com/bench

Hey Hermes book me a flight to nyc and find the cheapest hotel available and social engineer the person approving rsvps make no mistakes

Just made this cool catalog with a ton of open platform hardware, devices and more that your Hermes Agent (or any agent really) can build on, integrate with, or live inside!

Check it out:
teknium.io/hermes-devices

Evergreen

You should be able to use smarter models in your agent.
You should be able to use cheaper models in your agent.
You should be able to use local models in your agent.
You should be able to use a different model for every job.
You should be able to switch models in the middle of a conversation.
You should be able to choose what data your agent has.
You should be able to choose what it remembers and what it forgets.
You should be able to choose what computer your agent runs on.
You should be able to run it on a machine that never touches the internet.
You should be able to run it while your laptop is closed.
You should be able to reach it from the apps you already use.
You should be able to choose how your agent thinks.
You should be able to read the prompt it runs on.
You should be able to see every tool it has, and turn off the ones you don't want.
You should be able to teach it something once and never explain it again.
You should be able to know what it did, and when, and why.
You should be able to export your agent.
You should be able to read the code.
You should be able to change the code.
Your agent should be yours.

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

hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-stor…

Solar Mini 4 from @upstageai is free on Nous Portal for the next two weeks

It has 3B active parameters (35B total), 512K context, and an Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index score of 24 - above models with 10x the active parameters

The plugins catalog had been growing fast! Nearly 500 mods to Hermes that add new capabilities, model providers, memory enhancements, visual components and a lot more!

Explore them all here:

hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/plugins

Hold a button. Ask Hermes. Hear the answer.

Hermes Gadget is an open SDK for a small device that talks to your own @NousResearch Hermes.

You speak. Hermes listens, thinks, and answers out loud. The screen shows what it's doing. If it needs your permission, it asks you right there.

No hardware required to try it. The desktop simulator runs the same code as the ESP32 firmware.

Your Hermes, in your hand.

github.com/Adolanium/herm…

The last week had several small improvements to the Hermes Desktop app. I made a quick video to catch you up!

- Drag and drop sessions between Projects
- New themes
- Change Chat text size (separate from UI text)
- Model picker favorites
- Review pane has Uncommitted, Branch, and Last Turn

Check it out!

Setting up your Hermes with Discord should now be a little less confusing or painful