Open-source AI startup Nous Research completes $75 million funding round, with a valuation of approximately $1.5 billion

Odaily Planet Daily News The startup Nous Research, which owns the open-source AI agent Hermes, has completed a new funding round. The scale of this financing round is at least $75 million, giving the company a post-investment valuation of $1.5 billion. This round was led by Robot Ventures, with participation from several well-known institutions including Union Square Ventures (USV). Its core product, Hermes, as an open-source local AI agent, has accumulated 214,000 Stars and nearly 40,000 Forks on the GitHub platform. It supports users deploying and running it locally on personal computers and virtual servers, possessing autonomous execution capabilities such as web retrieval and code generation. (TechCrunch)