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Nous Research Raises $90M to Take Its Open-Source Hermes Agent to Business
Nous Research has raised $90 million to build Hermes for Businesses, a company version of its MIT-licensed Hermes agent. The raise is confirmed; the valuation is reported, mostly at $1.5B, with one $1.2B figure in circulation. Nous's "2.5% of global token usage" is its own estimate.
Small Open Models That Answer in One Pass: Liquid AI’s d1 and Perplexity’s pplx-embed-v2-late
Liquid AI open-sourced two "decision models" that give a structured answer in a single pass, in about 8 ms on an RTX 4090 by Liquid's figures. Perplexity open-sourced two search models that read text, images and PDF pages without OCR, where a small model can query an index built by a big one. What each does, in plain words.
Claude Haiku 5.5: Anthropic’s Small Model Gets Much Cheaper and Much Better at Using a Computer
Anthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5 costs around 75% less to run than Haiku 4.5, by Anthropic's estimate, and jumps from 15.7% to 72.4% on Anthropic's OSWorld 2.1 computer-use test. Sonnet 5.5 cache reads are also halved. What is confirmed, what is company benchmark, and who it is for.
GPT-6 Reaches Every ChatGPT Tier: Luna for Free Users, Sol for Paid
OpenAI is rolling GPT-6 into ChatGPT's Chat tab for every plan: GPT-6 Sol for paid tiers from 7 October, GPT-6 Luna for Free and Go from 8 October, plus "Intelligent UI" answers with charts, forms and mini tools. What changed, which Sol this is, and what OpenAI's own safety card flags.
LoGRA Explained: How NVIDIA Cuts RL Training Memory with Low-Rank Gradient Sketches
NVIDIA’s LoGRA paper shows low-rank gradient sketches cutting average RL training memory by up to 45.7% on tested Qwen reasoning setups—and making 27B RL runnable on one 8×H100 node where dense Adam OOMs. What the method is, what Table 1 shows, and what it does not prove.
RAG vs Jev+RAG Explained: What the Judgment Gate Adds
Avi Chawla’s 7 October explainer contrasts standard RAG with a Jev gate between retrieval and generation. What hybrid search already does, what typed probabilities add, why thresholds stay in code, and what this architecture does not replace.
Grok Bot’s Best-Backend Shift: Outcomes Over In-House-Only
Elon Musk says Grok Bot will use the best back-end model for each task—naming Claude Opus 5.5, MidJourney, Suno and other leading APIs. What he stated, what remains unconfirmed, and why routing details still matter.
O-ID’s $1.2M seed: modular humanoids you can swap on site
Tokyo-based O-ID says it raised $1.2 million in seed funding, led by Tawani Ventures, to move a fully modular industrial humanoid from prototype toward production for Japanese automotive and logistics work.
Teradyne bets on Bright Machines: robots meet AI-server factories
Teradyne has made a strategic investment in Bright Machines and will collaborate on software-defined manufacturing for AI infrastructure. The investment size was not disclosed.
South Korea’s bank hacks: possible AI use raises the stakes
South Korea’s president ordered a full response after customer data was exposed at seven financial firms, saying some cases showed possible AI use. Police have formed a 28-member investigation team.
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