Every week, I organize 400 to 700 links into roughly 60 categories as part of my ongoing effort to learn about AI. This is my personal notebook, which I enjoy sharing with friends… a hobby and a labor of love, rather than a commercial publication or product.
If you arrived here through a search or shared link, this page collects the links I found for Nous Research for the week ending September 4, 2026.
As part of my learning process, I like to automate the category covers. It gives me a chance to learn Python and APIs.
This week’s cover prompt was written using Claude Opus 4.7, and the image was generated using Nano Banana 2.1.
Category Cover Image Prompt: A psychedelic 1960s Fillmore-style screen-printed gig poster of a wise owl perched on an open glowing spellbook, its feathers melting into swirling paisley fractals and open-source circuitry, a harvest moon and autumn leaves spiraling around an ornate border, with bold hand-lettered title text reading 'Nous Research' arcing across the top in flat electric magenta, acid orange, deep teal and lime green inks on cream paper stock with visible registration offset and paper texture.
This Week in Nous Research News
Summary by Claude Sonnet 5.5 based on this week’s links:
- Hermes Agent v0.21.0: Teknium announced the release, listing Bots Mode, agent-to-agent communication, persistent multi-gateway connections, subagent steering and expanded connectors. He also said the default context used dropped by about 50%.
- Local models in Hermes: Daniel Han of Unsloth announced a local backend for Hermes. It supports Unsloth quantized builds of DeepSeek-V4-Flash and several Qwen models.
- Cost and model access: Teknium said Fable 5.1 is available in Hermes Agent through Nous Portal at 20% off the API price, and on OpenRouter. He also noted Anthropic cut cache read prices by 75%, which he says still leaves them about 13x pricier than DeepSeek Flash.
This summary was generated by Claude Sonnet 5.5 to help you explore the links below. Rest assured, I select, organize, and check the links by hand in Google Sheets, and write the introduction and personal commentary in The Main Newsletters myself each week as a labor of love.
This week's links related to Nous Research
Hermes now has a local backend! There’s support for Unsloth UD-Q4_K_XL and UD-Q4_K_M quants for DeepSeek-V4-Flash, Qwen3.8-27B, 3.6-35B-A3B and Qwen3.8-Flash-Next in Hermes!
https://x.com/danielhanchen/status/2095623899979600152
Also, Anthropic made cache read prices 75% cheaper. This is only 13x more expensive than deepseek flash now for cache reads (most of the tokens paid for)
https://x.com/Teknium/status/2094861678785806595
Fable 5.1 is now available in Hermes Agent through Nous Portal at 20% off the API price, and in OpenRouter – give it a try!
https://x.com/Teknium/status/2094856608002310543
Hermes accelerates teams
https://x.com/NousResearch/status/2093149616510288147
Hermes Agent v0.21.0 is now out! – Bots Mode – Agent 2 Agent Comms – Persistent Multi-Gateway Connections – Subagent Steering – Expanded Connectors Access and a lot more! Check out the release notes below
https://x.com/Teknium/status/2094521389231575346
Oh yea, and also reduced default context used by ~50%!
https://x.com/Teknium/status/2094521827884417208
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