Agents
Hermes
The Hermes threshold: the agent that configures itself by talking
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.
Hermes
Hermes Index: measuring agents on real cost, not just on score
Nous Research publishes Hermes Index: four benchmarks inside Hermes Agent, with the average cost per task next to the score.
AI
Hermes and the plugin catalog: trust is built with a pinned commit
The Hermes Plugin Catalog grows between human review and pinned commits, while the ecosystem widens from hardware to gateways.
Hermes
Web search goes free: Hermes hands its answers to Perplexity
Perplexity Fast Search becomes the default web search for Hermes Agent, free on every Nous Portal tier: it changes the cost of autonomy.
Venice.ai
VVV pulls back, but the autonomous agent moves ahead: Venice between market and machine
The Venice token loses ground on the day, while an agent powered by Venice inference launches its own token: two speeds.