Nous Research
An open-source AI lab known for its Hermes models and agent.
- Type
- AI lab
- Last shipped
- Oct 22, 2026
Everything Nous Research shipped
October 2026
- New feature
Nous Research released an official Meshy plugin for Hermes Agent that makes 3D models, shown in chat in Hermes Desktop, from text or photos.
- New feature
Nous Research added a Cua Spaces plugin to Hermes Agent, giving it its own Linux, macOS or Windows computer that teams can watch and take over.
- New model
Nous Research added Krea 3 image editing to Nous Portal, with a Fast mode, an Ultra tier, box-bounded edits and hex color control.
- Availability
Nous Research made Hermes Agent a launch partner for NVIDIA RTX Spark laptops, selectable in the Windows agent setup flow with new generative onboarding.
- Launch
Nous Research released Hermes Agent v0.22.0, called The Threshold Release, with a published changelog.
- New feature
Nous Research launched connectors for Hermes Agent, with over 50 available to everyone, multiple accounts per connector and read/write limits.
- New model
Nous Research made a token-efficient coding and agentic reasoning model, MISSINGNO., free for a limited time on Nous Portal.
- New model
Nous Research made StepFun's Step 5 Preview, a 600B-parameter model with 1M context and vision, free on Nous Portal for a week.
- Availability
Nous Research brought Hermes Agent to the new ASUS ProArt RTX Spark PCs, with MuseTree and ComfyUI integrations and local model support.
- Availability
Nous Research made Hermes Agent available in the Microsoft Store with one-click install.
- Launch
Nous Research introduced Hermes Index, an average of benchmarks showing how models perform inside Hermes Agent, to help users choose models.
- New model
Nous Research made Upstage's Solar Mini 4, a 35B-parameter model with 512K context, free on Nous Portal for two weeks.
September 2026
- New feature
Nous Research added Sign in with ChatGPT to Nous Portal, letting users run Hermes Agent on their ChatGPT plan, managed from ChatGPT settings.
- New feature
Nous Research made Perplexity's Fast Search the default web search in Hermes Agent for Nous Portal subscribers, free on all tiers.
- New feature
Nous Research added Bot Screen to Hermes Desktop, streaming any bot's screen live so users can watch it work or take over.
- New feature
Nous Research launched a Plugin Catalog for Hermes Agent with 4 official and 96 community plugins, each community plugin reviewed by the team.
- Launch
Nous Research launched Hermes Business on Nous Portal, with team invites, a shared balance with per-member caps and shared skills, plus Hermes Enterprise for on-prem.
- New feature
Nous Research added live subagent activity details to Hermes Agent, which users can steer and stop from the CLI and Desktop app.
- New feature
Nous Research added Perplexity Search API support to Hermes Agent, giving it real-time results from an index of over 400 billion URLs.
- Availability
Nous Research added first-class Hermes support in Omarchy, installable from its AI menu or usable as the default terminal agent.
- New feature
Nous Research added one-click local model setup to Hermes Desktop, which reads the user's hardware, picks a model, downloads it and configures the runtime.
- Pricing
Nous Research launched a Nous Portal referral program giving new users $15 off Plus and referrers a $10 credit per successful referral.
- New feature
Nous Research added persistent multi-gateway connections to Hermes Desktop in v0.21.0, showing bots and chats across Hermes Cloud and local agents together.
- New model
Nous Research made Fable 5.1 available in Hermes Agent through Nous Portal at 20% off the API price.
August 2026
- Launch
Nous Research released Hermes Agent v0.21.0, called the Pantheon Release, which users can install by running 'hermes update'.
- New feature
Nous Research added an official Box skill to Hermes, letting agents manage files, search documents and query a user's Box cloud files.
- New feature
Nous Research reworked the Nous Portal model catalog page, showing free models, promos and a sortable list of all models in one place.
- New feature
Nous Research added real-profile browsing to Hermes Agent, letting it browse with the user's logins from a managed copy of their Chrome profile.
- New feature
Nous Research expanded the Hermes Agent MCP Connectors Catalog with 44 new connections, set up in one click in Hermes Desktop.