AI

Hermes arrives on the Microsoft Store, Spotify leaves the core as a catalog plugin, and the stable v0.21.6 release pipeline debuts.

Nous Research closes a $90 million Series B at a $1.5 billion valuation and launches Hermes for Businesses.

Nous Research publishes Hermes Index: four benchmarks inside Hermes Agent, with the average cost per task next to the score.

Flux 3 Image arrives on Venice in anonymised form as the cut in VVV emissions to 2M a year fully takes effect.

The Hermes Plugin Catalog grows between human review and pinned commits, while the ecosystem widens from hardware to gateways.

Hermes cleaned up a million lines of code in 19 hours with 1,393 subagents: 19,300 dollars for an estimated value of 1.8 million.

VVV between 29.4 and 29.7 dollars, market capitalisation above 1.4 billion. The W40 report flags record credit consumption and rising sign-ups.

Grayscale: the crypto-AI sector up 54% in September, VVV +70%. Between the market’s enthusiasm and the challenge of real use.

A night of commits, a simplified Discord setup and the desktop-web roadmap: Hermes is growing as a platform, not just as an agent.

A hearing without Altman, subpoenas from California, a lawsuit: the question is no longer who verifies, but who answers.

Nous Research marks three memory plugins as ‘unmaintained’ while the Hermes core keeps running. Maintenance is the least visible part of the ecosystem.

September closes with 267 changes across models, features and APIs. Release speed is Venice’s real product, not any single model.