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Nous Research launches Hermes for businesses and confirms its funding round
TechCrunch reports that Nous Research has raised 90 million dollars and is launching Hermes for Businesses. The startup aims to offer customized agents to companies. The announced capabilities and its usage estimates remain distinct from independently verified results.
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Nous Research has raised 90 million dollars in Series B funding, TechCrunch reports. Robot Ventures leads the round, with participants including Nvidia, Union Square Ventures, Menlo Ventures and Samsung. The startup's total funding reaches 158 million dollars.
The company, which develops the open source agent Hermes Agent, is launching Hermes for Businesses for companies. According to the presentation reported by TechCrunch, this offering allows companies to deploy customized agents capable of handling processes involving several steps, with a promise of data privacy and security.
This move toward businesses could shift adoption criteria: beyond developer interest, process reliability and control over data are likely to matter in deployment decisions. However, the article does not detail the protection mechanisms, hosting arrangements or results achieved on professional tasks.
Nous Research estimates that Hermes Agent has been cloned more than 24 million times and accounts for around 2.5% of global AI token usage. These figures come from the startup. They describe its estimate of the project's reach, without establishing the number of active users, the number of paying customers or the effectiveness of the new offering.