Perplexity launches Fast Search for its Search API
Perplexity has built Fast Search, an agent-focused Search API preset, on top of its new search engine Photon. Nous Research switched Hermes Agent's default search to it and made it free.
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Nous Research Opens Hermes Plugin Catalog
Nous Research opened a plugin catalog for Hermes Agent on September 16 with four official plugins and 96 from the community. Installs are pinned to commit hashes, capabilities require consent, a security scan runs at install time, and the documentation states plainly that being listed is not a code audit.
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Nous Research Announces Hermes Business and Hermes Enterprise
On September 14 Nous Research announced a team tier for Hermes Agent, Hermes Business, and an on-premises edition, Hermes Enterprise. On top of a shared balance and per-member caps sits a skill library that the whole team uses, no matter who built each skill.
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Hermes Agent Declares "Fully Open to Forking and Self-Hosting"
On the same day Nous Research emphasized the full openness of its open-source agent, an independent installation and hosting guide site also appeared
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Hermes Agent gets a dedicated remote computer, priced at a few dollars a month
Nous Research unveils a cloud execution environment with no lock-in, three days after launching bot mode
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Hermes Desktop splits agent profiles into "Bots"
Each bot gets its own role, model, memory, skills, and profile picture — and bots can even talk to each other
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Hermes Agent Cuts 12 Browser Tools Down to One
Nous Research adopts scripting approach for browser agent, cutting token usage by up to 66%
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Nous Research · Recent announcements
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- 2,817You can now watch your agents work live as Hermes Desktop streams the screen of any bot's screen or session in real time.
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- 1,637Hermes now has first-class support in Omarchy, @DHH’s Arch-based agentic Linux distribution.
- 1,070You can now use the Perplexity Search API in Hermes Agent
- 890Grok 4.7 by @SpaceXAI is 50% off for one week in Hermes Agent via Nous Portal