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 August 7, 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 Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview.
Category Cover Image Prompt: A weathered brass compass resting on a flat dark stone at the edge of a perfectly still night pond, its glass face reflecting a dense field of stars that mirrors the indigo sky above, thin mist drifting over the water and reeds, a faint warm glow at the far horizon, painterly tonalist nocturne with low horizon and generous starlit negative space across the upper sky, quiet and contemplative, landscape format.
This Week in Nous Research News
Summary by Claude Sonnet 5.5 based on this week’s links:
- Big Hermes Agent release: Teknium listed the Herald release's additions: voice-activated chats, plugins and Kanban for the desktop app, Agent2Agent protocol support, outbound webhooks, and performance and token-efficiency gains.
- Qwen3.8-Max arrives: Hermes Agent was featured in Alibaba Qwen's release video, and Nous then made Qwen 3.8-Max available at 20% off via hermes update. Omarsar0 said that after trying it in Hermes, he doubts how far open models trail closed ones.
- Hermes as a shared harness: Other builders are treating Hermes as common ground. Liquid AI said its final post-training stage ran multi-turn agentic RL through Pi, Hermes Agent, and OpenClaw, and Executor's launch pitches one sign-in carried across agents including Hermes.
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
So much in the Herald Release of Hermes Agent – Voice Activated Chats (Replace your google home and alexas!) – Plugins and Kanban for the Desktop GUI App – Agent2Agent Protocol – Outbound Webhooks – Massive performance optimizations and token efficiency milestones reached -“
https://x.com/Teknium/status/2084344999513383195
Qwen 3.8 Max and a new local 27B Qwen 3.8 is coming! Thanks @Alibaba_Qwen for featuring Hermes Agent in the release video!”
https://x.com/Teknium/status/2084140512777560537
@Teknium Thanks! Looking forward to seeing Qwen3.8-Max on Hermes Agent!”
https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2084230329553031299
Qwen 3.8-Max, the latest model from @Alibaba_Qwen, is now available in Hermes Agent at 20% off. > hermes update”
https://x.com/NousResearch/status/2084680562300862514
Qwen3.8-Max is available in Hermes Agent now! Let’s build! 🚀🚀”
https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2084683919937634507
Doing Executor’s YC launch today! Executor is your tool gateway – it gives you one place to sign in to all of the services you use and then every agent adopt (Hermes, Codex, OpenClaw, etc) carry over the same signed in accounts, permissions, etc Executor gets a ton right about”
https://x.com/RhysSullivan/status/2084672219318452639
We trained it inside the real agent harnesses people use. > Four stages of post-training: SFT, expert specialization, multi-domain on-policy distillation, and agentic RL > The last stage of post-training is multi-turn agentic RL through Pi, Hermes Agent, and OpenClaw > Each”
https://x.com/liquidai/status/2084640749862236227
Try Qwen3.8-Max on Hermes Agent and you will have to doubt on how much these open frontier models have caught up with frontier closed models. These new open models are insanely good.”
https://x.com/omarsar0/status/2084314695343731026
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