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Nous Research

Nous Research is a pioneer in open AI training and research. We created Hermes Agent, the most widely used open source agent harness in the world.

We are on a mission to create and proliferate open access to intelligence.

Open Source

Leading the American Open Source Movement

We train models, build agents, and develop infrastructure to accelerate adoption of open intelligence globally.

Mission

Advancing Human Rights and Freedoms

We believe that powerful AI should be in the hands of the many rather than the privileged few. Our aim is to create and democratize access to the world's best intelligence.

Research

Understanding the Intelligence Frontier

Our primary research focus areas include agents, model architecture, data synthesis, fine-tuning, and reasoning, all aimed at advancing our understanding of models and how they can benefit humanity.

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Hermes Agent

The self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research. The only agent with a built-in learning loop — creates skills from experience,The self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research. The only agent with a built-in learning loop: creates skills from experience,

improves them during use, nudges itself to persist knowledge, and builds a deepening model of who you are across sessions.improves them during use, nudges itself to persist knowledge, and builds a deepening model of who you are across sessions.

Announcements

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Web search in Hermes Agent is now fast and free. @perplexity_ai built Fast Search for agents, and it is free for all Nous Portal tiers. x.com/perplexitydevs…

Sep 24, 2026
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Here's a handy walkthrough of the new Bot Screen feature by the illustrious @tonbistudio Docs: hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-guid…

Sep 23, 2026
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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.

Sep 23, 2026
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Grok 4.7 by @SpaceXAI is 50% off for one week in Hermes Agent via Nous Portal portal.nousresearch.com/models x.com/SpaceXAI/statu…

Sep 21, 2026
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Sep 17, 2026
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Working on a cool plugin and want to add it to the catalog? Follow this handy guide: hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-guid…

Sep 16, 2026
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Hermes Agent now has a Plugin Catalog: starting with 4 official plugins and 96 from the community, covering desktop mods, new platforms, browsing, specialized tools, and more. Our team reviews every community plugin, and we will add new ones regularly. hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/plugins

Sep 16, 2026
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New blog post: We had a million lines of Python to clean up. On September 2nd @Teknium asked Hermes Agent to do it. 1,393 subagents and nineteen hours later, the codebase was 34.4% smaller, saving us nearly $2m in engineering hours. nousresearch.com/refactoring-he…

Sep 15, 2026
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Hermes Agent is open for business. Nous Portal now lets you invite colleagues to a Hermes Business account: your team gets agents across channels while sharing one central balance with per-member caps and shared skills that compound into proprietary IP. Hermes Enterprise brings the same capabilities to on-prem or the cloud of your choice: a complete, self-improving, sovereign AI stack already trusted by some of the world's largest companies. Contact us to join them. https://t.co/JafZMCVAgm

Sep 14, 2026
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Hermes Agent now displays detailed information on all subagent activities live, and you can steer and stop them manually from the CLI and Desktop Application.

Sep 10, 2026
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