Nous Research ships Hermes Desktop v0.15.2, the first native GUI for its open-source Hermes Agent
Hermes Desktop, released under MIT license and demoed at NVIDIA's GTC Taipei keynote, moves the open-source agent beyond CLI-only use — a distribution-widening move that lowers the barrier for non-technical users and may accelerate adoption of Nous's on-device inference stack.
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