Tooling3d ago
Nous Research opens the official Hermes Agent mobile beta: iOS via TestFlight, Android via Firebase, connecting your phone to your own gateway to approve tools and manage bots and routines
During NousCon 2026 in New York on Oct 30, Nous Research released an official mobile beta of Hermes Agent and put up a sign-up page at hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/mobile: iOS users join the "Hermes Agent - Mobile" beta through TestFlight, and Android users join through Firebase App Distribution. The TestFlight page says the app connects to your own Hermes gateway so you can chat with streaming, approve tool calls, and manage bots and routines from anywhere. Teknium, co-founder and lead engineer of Hermes Agent, confirmed on X that the iPhone and Android betas launched together. Nous has not announced a general release date or any benchmarks.
Tooling60d ago
Hermes Agent: Perplexity now available as web search and scrape backend
Nous / Hermes maintainer Teknium announced that Hermes Agent can now use Perplexity as its web search and web scrape tool backend, letting developers switch that retrieval stack inside agent workflows.
Industry27d ago
Nous Research raises $90M Series B at $1.5B to take MIT-licensed Hermes Agent into businesses
On Oct 7 Nous Research, maker of the open-source Hermes Agent, confirmed a $90M Series B at a $1.5B valuation led by Robot Ventures, with NVIDIA, Microsoft's M12, Samsung, USV, Y Combinator and Menlo among backers, bringing total funding to $158M. Nous says Hermes Agent has been cloned over 24M times and drives about 2.5% of global token usage (internal estimate). The money funds Hermes for Businesses: a team tier with shared balance and skill library, and an Enterprise edition on customer-controlled infrastructure with SSO and SLAs, plus a mobile app.
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