Nous Research ships Hermes Agent with real-time voice and agent-to-agent links
The v0.20.0 release adds wake words, grounded citations, signed webhooks, desktop plugins and longer autonomous runs.
By Ryan Merket · Published
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Why it matters
Hermes Agent is becoming Nous Research's commercial bridge from open-source model research to subscription software, with voice and interoperability aimed at making agents persistent operating tools.
Nous Research, the open-source AI lab co-founded by Ryan "Teknium" Teknium (@Teknium), shipped Hermes Agent v0.20.0 on August 3rd, adding streaming conversational voice, on-device wake words and a standard protocol for communicating with other AI agents.
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