Hermes Agent
Hermes Agent is an open-source autonomous AI agent built by Nous Research and released in February 2026, MIT licensed, with documentation at hermes-agent.nousresearch.com. Nous estimates it has been cloned more than 24 million times and drives roughly 2.5% of global AI token usage; those are company estimates.In October 2026 Nous launched Hermes for Businesses, which […]
Nous Research
Nous Research develops Hermes Agent, an open-source AI agent released in February 2026. Secondary sources name Jeffrey Quesnelle as CEO and list Karan Malhotra, Teknium and Shivani Mitra among its co-founders; the company’s headquarters city could not be confirmed.On October 7, 2026 it confirmed a $90 million Series B at a $1.5 billion valuation led […]
Arena Leaderboard
The Arena leaderboard, formerly the LMArena Chatbot Arena, ranks AI models using crowdsourced human preference votes. It began as a UC Berkeley research project in 2023 and became a company in 2025.One profile cites a June 2026 company blog post describing an enterprise offering at a $100 million annualized run rate, which we have not […]
Beam
Beam is an open-source large language model from Reflection AI with 501 billion parameters, which SiliconANGLE reported debuted on October 5, 2026. The article says its performance approaches that of Alibaba’s Qwen 3.8 Max, and notes that many of the most advanced open-source models have been built by Chinese companies.That performance claim comes from press […]
Arena (formerly LMArena)
Arena, formerly LMArena, operates the Chatbot Arena, a public leaderboard that ranks AI models using crowdsourced human preference votes. The project began in 2023 as an academic effort at UC Berkeley under the LMSYS research organization, was incorporated as a company in April 2025, and was rebranded as Arena in January 2026. Anastasios Angelopoulos is […]
Reflection AI
Reflection AI is a New York-based AI lab founded in 2024 by Misha Laskin, its CEO, and Ioannis Antonoglou, its CTO. It positions itself as an American open frontier lab, an alternative to closed model developers, with a plan to release model weights publicly while keeping datasets and training pipelines proprietary. Laskin previously led reward […]