Svmuu News: Nous Research, the startup behind the open-source AI agent Hermes, has completed a new round of funding. The round raised at least $75 million, bringing the company’s post-funding valuation to $1.5 billion. The round was led by Robot Ventures, with participation from several prominent institutions, including Union Square Ventures (USV). Its core product, Hermes—an open-source local AI agent—has accumulated 214,000 stars and nearly 40,000 forks on GitHub. It supports local deployment and operation on personal computers and virtual servers, and possesses autonomous capabilities such as web search and code generation. (TechCrunch)