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NEW: Added @OpenRouter's new free stealth model, Elephant-Alpha, to Hermes Agent, which you can now access if you run `hermes update`! I also had Hermes come up with an agentic benchmark on the fly to

This article by @rmaruy explores whether discrete code or symbol systems can spontaneously emerge within a single neural network, examining the conditions under which internal representations might de

Yann LeCun shared or engaged with a post on X expressing concern about the erosion of public health infrastructure in the United States, specifically referencing the potential resurgence of eradicated

Just merged into Hermes: You can now use `hermes debug share` and `/debug` to get pastebin uploaded links for your latest agent, debug, and gateway log to share with us on twitter or discord to help u

The Hermes Agent dashboard is here! Run 'hermes dashboard' So much in this release but the one many have been waiting for above the rest, the GUI dashboard! Manage and monitor your Hermes Agent with a

David Ha shared a post referencing the famous quote attributed to Pablo Picasso, 'Good artists copy, great artists steal,' which speaks to the idea that truly great creative work involves deeply inter

Little quality of life update: Skills should be called more proactively now! ~20% more likely to load the right skill for the job! And, of course, in Hermes Agent fashion - it did the prompt improveme

给中国用户的好消息：Hermes Agent 现在原生支持个人微信了 微信扫码即可连接，私聊群聊都支持。图片、视频、文件、语音消息全覆盖，长轮询直连，不需要公网 IP。 运行 'hermes update' 即可体验 文档：http://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-guide/messaging/weixin 感谢 @Bravohenry_ 的贡

Hermes Agent users are remarkably model-curious. Of the top 10 models used in Hermes Agent, 8 different model companies are represented, and 6 of the top 7 are open source. Without lock-in, people try

I told my girlfriend I was talking with my Hermes agent on Whatsapp. She got really happy and a bit confused and asked me since when I have a Hermes agent? I told her since this morning, at which poin

In the middle of a historic mission back to the Moon, this Administration is proposing to a 47% cut to NASA science and a 23% cut to NASA’s budget overall. Last week’s launch showed our country and wo

@3blue1brown https://x.com/verncrawford/status/2042344703077859402?s=46 @NousResearch 2 prompts guys. 2 prompts!!! The second prompt was “go from 6 camera moves to 3.” (Hermes Agent, Codex5.4, Manim V

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) announced on April 9, 2026, that it was leaving X (formerly Twitter) after nearly 20 years on the platform, citing a dramatic collapse in reach: an X post ...

Early Beta Support for Blue Bubbles iMsg as a Gateway is now in Hermes Agent. Now you can use iMessage as an interaction layer for your agent. Test early by using hermes update and setting it up! Let

According to an analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), President Trump has raised taxes on most Americans in ways that more than offset the tax cuts he has signed into l...

A Politico *European Pulse* poll conducted March 13–21, 2026, surveyed at least 1,000 adults each in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Spain. It found that 46% of Italians, 42% of Belg...

I was unable to retrieve the specific content of the two X/Twitter posts referenced (NousResearch status/2041974602826457364 and tobi status/2041719844920283326), as X requires authentication to ac...

Anthropic investigated the internal mechanisms of its latest unreleased model, Claude Mythos Preview, and what they found is 100% worth a read. Key things I pulled from Anthropic researchers' threads:

Let's see how MiMo V2 Pro evolves in Hermes Agent! We have partnered with @Xiaomi to bring their excellent MiMo V2 Pro model to Hermes Agent via the Nous Portal - completely free to use for the next 2

Plus: execute_code on remote backends, Firecrawl cloud browser, Browser Use provider, xAI prompt caching, thinking prefill continuation, cron script injection, Telegram reactions, shared thread sessio

We’re partnering with @MiniMax_AI across product and models to make their upcoming releases the best for Hermes Agent users. MiniMax models are already some of the most-used in Hermes Agent. If you ha

Coming soon: WorldSim in your Hermes Agent? putting this skill out soon~ in hermes agent, i can create a new kind of worldsim-based instance for higher fidelity, narrower simulations here i had it try

arXiv:2610.13931v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The expressivity of a neural network Phi describes the class of functions that a network can express. The term topological expressivity refers to a fa

On October 11 2026 François Chollet announced that he has been experimenting with large‑language‑model post‑training techniques using KerasHub, JAX, and TPUs. He indicated that portions of his work ma

Pay close attention to custom harnesses. This is a super interesting paper showing the impact of training inside the harness. Qwen3-14B goes from 22.2% to 54.8% on Spider 2.0-SQLite when it is trained

Interesting paper from Sakana AI on memory for recurrent models. Recurrent models are good at state tracking, but they usually keep everything in one hidden vector, so short-term computation and long-

I find it odd watching armchair critics rush to nitpick @MistralAI’s plans or obsess over whether they’re #1 on every leaderboard. Having a team with this level of conviction building frontier models

Ben Affleck reveals he writes Python, understands convolutional neural networks, worked extensively with GPUs, and used his celebrity status to get private looks at Google and OpenAI’s video models “I

Spontaneous morning chat with Juergen Schmidhuber and Jake Newfield philosophizing about AI. Sry my mic somehow disconnected but Juergen had the more interesting points anyways! Our CEO @Jake_Newfield

@abuchanlife - training frontier models is expensive - distilling a frontier model is cheap - this market force alone tells us that frontier foundation models will be free/open. - there are others. ht

Banger paper from Google. It's standard practice to sample several agent rollouts and trust the answers they agree on. This Google paper shows that agreement can hide shared errors, while disagreement

Banger paper from CMU on harness learning. (bookmark it) Also, pay attention to this important new AI engineering skill of improving agents by editing their harness code instead of their weights. Seei

Language is not fundamental to human consciousness. In terms of evolution, it arrived only recently on our timeline. Consciousness evolved over millions of years through sensory awareness, emotion, an

Side note. The idea that current models are conscious is absurd and downright offensive. Do not confuse competent information processing and sentience, they are wholly unrelated. You can be entirely i

Cool eval. Simply ask an LLM “Land or Water?” and give it a latitude and longitude coordinate as text. Ask 16,200 times, plot as image. The models know. From compressing the internet. results for all

Ten years ago, AlphaGo’s Move 37 shocked the world. It wasn’t intuition alone that produced it. AlphaGo could search possible futures, test its instincts and reason about what would happen next. In a

We'll be spending a lot more time trying to understand the outputs of language models. A few thoughts, tips & tricks: Writing. Something I've had success with: Ask your LLM to explain something in ASD

During a Swyx podcast interview in October 2026, an OpenAI engineer revealed that the company’s Decision API is built on the GPT‑6 Luna model, augmented with a dedicated decision head. This configurat

Congrats to @hardmaru @risi1979 @yujin_tang and Risto! Neuroevolution is where I got started in AI, and neuroevolution is still a playground for original ideas with neural networks. This book is worth

arXiv:2609.35177v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Estimating integrals of black-box, high-dimensional functions, from expectations and kernel mean embeddings to the softmax kernel in self-attention, is

GPT-6 Sol from @OpenAI on ARC-AGI (Verified): - ARC-AGI-3: 4.6%, 5.6K (standard harness), 23.0%, 8.7K (provider adapter harness) - ARC-AGI-2: 89.6%, 0.44/task - ARC-AGI-1: 95.5%, 0.14/task Sol reaches

Neuroevolution is a special field within AI/ML -- owe my career to it, and is underappreciated relative to its downstream impact (similar to ALIFE) -- helped birth ideas like hypernetworks, quality di

I've been suspicious of the philosophers hired by Anthropic who specialize in AI ethics for similar reasons that I'm skeptical of those who went into 'bioethics': they form a closed subculture that de

Calculators “may be deserving of important rights”, too! NEW: Dario Amodei has said that AI systems 'may be deserving of important rights.' Anthropic's top safety researchers argue AI may be 'justifie

Reasoning from scratch, round number 5! This time, talking about log-probability scoring (also a great fundamental concept for loss functions like cross-entropy in pre-training and distillation) and s

Yann LeCun, Executive Chairman of AMI Labs, explains why LLMs are mostly retrieving human knowledge rather than thinking for themselves: LeCun starts with why so many people misread what these systems