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Nous ships patch v0.22.2, opens an official plugin catalogue and measures Nemotron 3.5 Super VL on Hermes Bench: 63.44.

Venice brings Muse Wonder, Gemini 4 Argon and Hy4 Preview onto its platform, adds private video and watches VVV climb back above 24 dollars.

Hermes Agent v0.22 «The Threshold Release» introduces itself in chat and cuts a third of the codebase; the patch v0.22.1 lands the next day.

Venice brings Gemini 4 Argon and the whole Claude family onto its own API at list price, while VVV burns keep squeezing the supply.

VVV loses 17% in a week while burns and subscriptions hit new highs: usage and price have come unstuck.

Hermes Agent v0.21.7 consolidates the core, while the official catalog and community plugins become the real ground for growth.

While v0.21.7 consolidates the stable releases, the Hermes ecosystem grows from the ground up: multi-account connectors, the Anatomy skill and projects such as Herald OS.

Hermes Agent ships v0.21.7 and moves to tagged releases: the open source project from Nous Research chooses stability.

Nous Research closes a $90 million Series B at a $1.5 billion valuation and launches Hermes for Businesses, while trial models arrive on the platform.

The UN human rights chief calls for a ban on machines deciding who lives. In Ukraine they are designing an army of robots. Who answers for it?

Step 5 Preview free for a week on Nous Portal, the stable v0.21.6 release and the tools for governing many agents at once.

Agentic Chat becomes Venice’s default experience, Claude Haiku 5.5 arrives at low prices and the VVV token cuts its emissions.