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176,524 views • 8 months ago

no money for grok or midjourney? this tool is for you. there's a FREE tool created by an anon dev. open-source. runs locally. 117k stars on github. it generates: > images & video > 3d models > audio > 20+ models here's how to set it up in under 5 minutes: 1️⃣download ComfyUI Desktop go to and grab the desktop app for your system. windows 10+, mac (apple silicon), or linux. it installs like any normal app, it sets up python and every dependency for you in the background. no terminal, no config files. 2️⃣open it first launch, it spins up its own environment automatically. you just wait a few seconds and you're in. you'll land on a node canvas, that's the whole interface. 3️⃣load a starter workflow top menu → Workflow → Browse Templates → Image Generation. click it. this drops a ready-made setup onto your canvas so you don't build anything from scratch. 4️⃣grab a model comfyui ships empty on purpose, the model is the brain, and you pick it. in the template, the "Load Checkpoint" node has a Download button when no model is installed. click it. it pulls one in for you (a few GB, this is the only real wait). 5️⃣install ComfyUI Manager this is the one add-on you don't skip. it lets you install models, custom nodes, and updates with a click instead of the command line. grab it from github (link in comments). it's the difference between fighting comfyui and flying in it. one honest note: an NVIDIA gpu makes this fast, apple silicon works great too, and a weak machine still runs it just slower. that's the whole setup. you now own an image, video, and 3D studio that costs you nothing per month. save this. and the next time grok or midjourney asks for your card. you won't need it. disclaimer: comfyui itself is 100% free. so are the local models (sdxl, flux, wan 2.2, ltx-2). some premium models like seedance are pay-per-use api models, only if you want top-tier quality. the free local ones cover most of what you need. (github link in the comments) follow and turn on post notification for daily AI contents.

no money for grok or midjourney? this tool is for you. there's a FREE tool created by an anon dev. open-source. runs locally. 117k stars on github. it generates: > images & video > 3d models > audio > 20+ models here's how to set it up in under 5 minutes: 1️⃣download ComfyUI Desktop go to and grab the desktop app for your system. windows 10+, mac (apple silicon), or linux. it installs like any normal app, it sets up python and every dependency for you in the background. no terminal, no config files. 2️⃣open it first launch, it spins up its own environment automatically. you just wait a few seconds and you're in. you'll land on a node canvas, that's the whole interface. 3️⃣load a starter workflow top menu → Workflow → Browse Templates → Image Generation. click it. this drops a ready-made setup onto your canvas so you don't build anything from scratch. 4️⃣grab a model comfyui ships empty on purpose, the model is the brain, and you pick it. in the template, the "Load Checkpoint" node has a Download button when no model is installed. click it. it pulls one in for you (a few GB, this is the only real wait). 5️⃣install ComfyUI Manager this is the one add-on you don't skip. it lets you install models, custom nodes, and updates with a click instead of the command line. grab it from github (link in comments). it's the difference between fighting comfyui and flying in it. one honest note: an NVIDIA gpu makes this fast, apple silicon works great too, and a weak machine still runs it just slower. that's the whole setup. you now own an image, video, and 3D studio that costs you nothing per month. save this. and the next time grok or midjourney asks for your card. you won't need it. disclaimer: comfyui itself is 100% free. so are the local models (sdxl, flux, wan 2.2, ltx-2). some premium models like seedance are pay-per-use api models, only if you want top-tier quality. the free local ones cover most of what you need. (github link in the comments) follow and turn on post notification for daily AI contents.

m0h

14,542 views • 2 months ago

I made a digital twin of myself from 10 seconds of video. In the clip: left is the real me, middle is a leading avatar model, right is Mirage Avatar X. Watch the eyes. The difference is not subtle. I have been testing AI avatar models since my first clone in 2023. Every one of them was impressive for about 30 seconds, then your brain caught up. Still eyes. One polite expression. A mouth doing all the work. Avatar X is the first model where that moment never came. Here is what makes it different: It is trained on you. Avatar X preserves your identity. Most avatar models can copy your appearance. Avatar X captures the subtle details that make you you. The way you move, the way you express yourself, and the way you naturally deliver speech. It looks like you. It moves like you. It sounds like you. It understands non-verbal performance Laughing, crying, yawning, sighing. These are the moments where most avatar models fall apart, trying to lip-sync through sounds that aren't words. Avatar X responds naturally, generating realistic facial expressions and micro-expressions instead of forcing every sound into speech. The expression goes beyond the lips Expressions are driven by the audio, through the whole face and body. Ask a question and it furrows its brows and shrugs on the tone. No other model does this to this degree. No quality degradation The first second and the last second look the same. Other models lose quality the longer the video runs. 10 seconds of input That is the entire requirement. Other models need 15 seconds, some even 1 to five minutes. Three years ago my AI clone was a party trick. This one can carry my face, my expressions and my delivery without me in the room. The bar for AI avatars just moved. Avatar X is live today. → Try it here:

Linus ✦ Ekenstam

20,999 views • 1 month ago

Google just proved that bigger isn't always better. Their 308M parameter model is outperforming models 2x its size. Google just released 𝗘𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗚𝗲𝗺𝗺𝗮, and it's proving that lightweight embedding models can punch way above their weight class. At just 308M parameters (578MB), it's the new state-of-the-art for models under 500M parameters across MTEB multilingual, English, and code benchmarks. But the really impressive part is that it ranks 8th overall on MTEB(Multilingual, v2) - that's 𝟭𝟳 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀 above the second-best sub-500M model, and it's delivering performance 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗼𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝘀𝗶𝘇𝗲. There are three key parts of their training recipe that sets it apart: 𝟭. 𝗘𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿-𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗜𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Instead of starting from a decoder-only Gemma 3 model, they first adapted it to encoder-decoder, then used just the encoder. By basing EmbeddingGemma off an LLM that already has world and language understanding, it gives it a stronger starting point. 𝟮. 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲-𝗟𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 They combine three different loss functions, instead of just having one: • Contrastive loss (NCE) with in-batch negatives and hardness weighting • Spread-out regularization to ensure embeddings utilize the full space (for quantization and ANN retrieval) • Embedding matching distillation from Gemini Embedding - not just learning from relevance scores, but directly aligning the embedding space with the teacher model 𝟯. 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 Rather than just averaging checkpoints from the same training run, they use optimization techniques to find multiple specialized training mixtures. Each mixture creates an "expert" model in different domains, and averaging all their parameters creates a final model that's actually better than individual models. Extras: • Matryoshka embeddings supporting 768, 512, 256, and 128 dimensions • Quantization-aware training - maintains quality even at int4 precision • 100+ languages from Gemma 3 pretraining • Exceptional performance on low-resource languages (check their XTREME-UP results) Is it the absolute best embedding model? No - Gemini Embedding still leads overall. But that's not really the point. EmbeddingGemma proves you can achieve state-of-the-art performance in a small package that's actually deployable on-device, in low-latency applications, and in resource-constrained environments. This makes good embeddings accessible for use cases that I'm seeing more and more: offline applications, privacy-sensitive deployments, and high-throughput scenarios where inference cost actually matters. Full paper: Shoutout to the EmbeddingGemma team at Google DeepMind for this awesome open source work 💙 and to Daniel Williams for helping me with this video! 🫶

Google just proved that bigger isn't always better. Their 308M parameter model is outperforming models 2x its size. Google just released 𝗘𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗚𝗲𝗺𝗺𝗮, and it's proving that lightweight embedding models can punch way above their weight class. At just 308M parameters (578MB), it's the new state-of-the-art for models under 500M parameters across MTEB multilingual, English, and code benchmarks. But the really impressive part is that it ranks 8th overall on MTEB(Multilingual, v2) - that's 𝟭𝟳 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀 above the second-best sub-500M model, and it's delivering performance 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗼𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝘀𝗶𝘇𝗲. There are three key parts of their training recipe that sets it apart: 𝟭. 𝗘𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿-𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗜𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Instead of starting from a decoder-only Gemma 3 model, they first adapted it to encoder-decoder, then used just the encoder. By basing EmbeddingGemma off an LLM that already has world and language understanding, it gives it a stronger starting point. 𝟮. 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲-𝗟𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 They combine three different loss functions, instead of just having one: • Contrastive loss (NCE) with in-batch negatives and hardness weighting • Spread-out regularization to ensure embeddings utilize the full space (for quantization and ANN retrieval) • Embedding matching distillation from Gemini Embedding - not just learning from relevance scores, but directly aligning the embedding space with the teacher model 𝟯. 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 Rather than just averaging checkpoints from the same training run, they use optimization techniques to find multiple specialized training mixtures. Each mixture creates an "expert" model in different domains, and averaging all their parameters creates a final model that's actually better than individual models. Extras: • Matryoshka embeddings supporting 768, 512, 256, and 128 dimensions • Quantization-aware training - maintains quality even at int4 precision • 100+ languages from Gemma 3 pretraining • Exceptional performance on low-resource languages (check their XTREME-UP results) Is it the absolute best embedding model? No - Gemini Embedding still leads overall. But that's not really the point. EmbeddingGemma proves you can achieve state-of-the-art performance in a small package that's actually deployable on-device, in low-latency applications, and in resource-constrained environments. This makes good embeddings accessible for use cases that I'm seeing more and more: offline applications, privacy-sensitive deployments, and high-throughput scenarios where inference cost actually matters. Full paper: Shoutout to the EmbeddingGemma team at Google DeepMind for this awesome open source work 💙 and to Daniel Williams for helping me with this video! 🫶

Victoria Slocum

21,610 views • 9 months ago

🔴 Finally! NVIDIA has finally made the code for Neuralangelo public! It has the ability to transform any video into a highly detailed 3D environment, and it's a technology related to but DIFFERENT from NeRF. 💡 Here's how it works: It takes a 2D video as input, showing an object, monument, building, landscape, etc., from various perspectives and analyzes details such as depth, size, and the shapes of objects. From this, the AI sketches an initial 3D model, similar to how an artist molds a figure. This representation is then refined to highlight more details, just as an artist would make the final touches when sculpting. The result is a 3D environment/model, perfect for use in any environment. Imagine the applications it will have for video games, cinema, virtual environments, VR, and more! 📽️🎮 💡 More details: A year ago, an article was presented on a groundbreaking technique called NVIDIA's Instant NeRF. This technique turns images into stunning 3D scenes in a short time, ideal for creating realistic models for video games and other applications. Although Instant NeRF had a lot of potential, the generated models were not perfect and often lacked detailed structures, appearing somewhat cartoonish. A year on, NVIDIA releases a new technique based on Instant NeRF, named Neuralangelo. This enhances the fidelity of surface structures. While NeRF reconstructs real objects in virtual environments from images or videos, Instant NeRF speeds up this process, and Neuralangelo further improves the quality, making the generated objects appear even more realistic when examined up close. Neuralangelo improves Instant NeRF's approach in two key ways related to the hash grid encoding technique: 1⃣ Numerical gradients have been used to compute higher-order derivatives as a smoothing operation. This optimizes the "hash grid" encoding using numerical rather than analytical gradients, providing a smoother input to the network that produces the 3D model. 2⃣ A "coarse-to-fine" optimization has been implemented in the hash grids to control different levels of detail. That is, they first focus on a smoothed version of the scene, and then refine it with more detailed updates. Well, as Arthur C. Clarke said, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

🔴 Finally! NVIDIA has finally made the code for Neuralangelo public! It has the ability to transform any video into a highly detailed 3D environment, and it's a technology related to but DIFFERENT from NeRF. 💡 Here's how it works: It takes a 2D video as input, showing an object, monument, building, landscape, etc., from various perspectives and analyzes details such as depth, size, and the shapes of objects. From this, the AI sketches an initial 3D model, similar to how an artist molds a figure. This representation is then refined to highlight more details, just as an artist would make the final touches when sculpting. The result is a 3D environment/model, perfect for use in any environment. Imagine the applications it will have for video games, cinema, virtual environments, VR, and more! 📽️🎮 💡 More details: A year ago, an article was presented on a groundbreaking technique called NVIDIA's Instant NeRF. This technique turns images into stunning 3D scenes in a short time, ideal for creating realistic models for video games and other applications. Although Instant NeRF had a lot of potential, the generated models were not perfect and often lacked detailed structures, appearing somewhat cartoonish. A year on, NVIDIA releases a new technique based on Instant NeRF, named Neuralangelo. This enhances the fidelity of surface structures. While NeRF reconstructs real objects in virtual environments from images or videos, Instant NeRF speeds up this process, and Neuralangelo further improves the quality, making the generated objects appear even more realistic when examined up close. Neuralangelo improves Instant NeRF's approach in two key ways related to the hash grid encoding technique: 1⃣ Numerical gradients have been used to compute higher-order derivatives as a smoothing operation. This optimizes the "hash grid" encoding using numerical rather than analytical gradients, providing a smoother input to the network that produces the 3D model. 2⃣ A "coarse-to-fine" optimization has been implemented in the hash grids to control different levels of detail. That is, they first focus on a smoothed version of the scene, and then refine it with more detailed updates. Well, as Arthur C. Clarke said, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Javi Lopez ⛩️

689,180 views • 3 years ago

🔥HOLY SMOKES! $TAO holders! 🚀 SUBNET 19 (VISION) ON BITTENSOR IS ABSOLUTELY CRUSHING IT! In my 5+ years covering crypto and AI, this is one of the most impressive implementations I've seen. The combination of scale, performance, and decentralization is absolutely next level! 🚀 @namoray_dev @Corcel_X 💨 INSANE Speed Performance: - Llama 3.1 8B: 196.18 tokens/s with +107.23% advantage - Llama 3.1 70B: 124.96 tokens/s with +154.96% advantage - Llama 3.2 3B: 166.69 tokens/s with +21.66% advantage 🔥 Top Tier Model Integration: - Meta-Llama-3-70B & 8B Instruct - FLUX.1-schnell for Text-to-Image - ProteusV0.4-Lightning (Text & Image) - Multiple model variations for redundancy 🔥 What Makes This INSANE: - Complete decentralization - No single point of failure - Multiple model choices for redundancy - Real-time performance tracking - Transparent incentive structure The incentive distribution curve shows a healthy network with: - Strong rewards for top performers - Fair distribution across all participants - Clear path for growth and improvement - Sustainable economic model What's truly MIND-BLOWING is how they've managed to: 1. Scale to millions of operations 2. Maintain high quality across multiple tasks 3. Create a fair, competitive marketplace 4. Build in redundancy and reliability 5. Achieve true decentralization This isn't just another subnet - this is the future of decentralized AI inference happening RIGHT NOW! 🔥 1. MASSIVE Scale & Adoption: - We're seeing 7M+ tokens being processed - 14K+ processing steps being executed - Multiple AI models running simultaneously - Incredible miner participation across the network 2. Revolutionary Task Distribution: - Llama 3.1 70B leading with 20% weighting - Avatar Generation at 15% - Perfectly balanced task distribution for optimal network performance - Multiple specialized tasks including Text-to-Image and Image-to-Image processing 3. Elite Performance Metrics: - Top miners hitting 0.00775 incentive rates - Consistent performance across the network - Impressive scaling from top to bottom performers - Strong incentive curve maintaining network quality 📈 Network Performance: - Consistent upward trend in tokens/s - Quality scores maintaining high levels (>0.9) - Steady improvement in miner performance - Rock-solid network reliability ⚡ Platform Highlights: - Permissionless, serverless architecture - Global network of Always-On GPUs - Instant API access - Full decentralization - Multi-model support with seamless switching What makes this TRULY SPECIAL is the consistent upward trajectory in both speed and quality, while maintaining a decentralized architecture. The performance advantages over industry standards (+154.96% for 70B!) are absolutely mind-blowing! 🚀 This isn't just another AI subnet - it's a glimpse into the future of decentralized AI inference! The combination of speed, reliability, and model variety makes this one of the most impressive implementations in the space! 🔥 📽 Watch Now on YouTube and TikTok: Source 🔗

Andy ττ

11,616 views • 1 year ago

New model: your robot can now pack your suitcase 🧳 Xiaomi has released a new robot foundation model. Called Xiaomi-Robotics-1, it is designed to have a robot pick things up and move them around. But first, DEFINITIONS: - Mixture-of-Transformers (MoT): An architecture where separate transformer "experts" (e.g., one for vision-language, one for actions) share a single attention stream, so each modality gets specialized parameters without losing joint reasoning. - Vision-language model (VLM): A model that jointly understands images and text. - Diffusion transformer: A transformer trained to turn noise into structured outputs by iterative denoising, here generating robot actions rather than images. - Action chunks: Short sequences of future actions (e.g., the next ~50 motor commands) predicted in one shot instead of one step at a time. - Flow matching: A faster version of diffusion. The model learns a straight-line velocity field from noise to the target action, so it needs only a few integration steps instead of many denoising ones. Its peculiarity comes from its two stage training: 1. 100,000 hours of video shot through a UMI rig: a handheld 3D-printed gripper with a camera, worn by humans doing ordinary tasks in homes, shops, factories and offices. 2. Adapt to actual robot bodies with ~10,000 hours of real-robot data. It replaces the standard approach of teleoperating a real robot for every hour of training data. Its architecture is a Mixture-of-Transformers pairing a pre-trained Qwen3-VL vision-language model with a diffusion transformer that emits action chunks via flow matching, released in 2.6B, 5.1B and 10.5B parameter variants. However, if you read the entire paper ("Scaling VLA Models with over 100K Hours"), you realize that all of the scaling experiments on 20k hours. Therefore the headline "out-of-the-box success climbing 26% → 75% as pre-training data grows" tops out at 100% of 20k hours! What the full corpus does to that curve is never shown -> and this where things would become interesting! Xiaomi's own conclusion is that model size has stopped mattering and data is the binding constraint. The performance gap among different model sizes are less pronounced than those observed across different data scales. This result suggests that model capacity at the billions-parameter scale may already be sufficient to capture the current dataset's distribution. Which further asks the same question: why not use the 100k video hours? Anyway, I would definitely love to have a couple robots at home that can cooperate to pack my suitcase with items relevant to my next destination:

New model: your robot can now pack your suitcase 🧳 Xiaomi has released a new robot foundation model. Called Xiaomi-Robotics-1, it is designed to have a robot pick things up and move them around. But first, DEFINITIONS: - Mixture-of-Transformers (MoT): An architecture where separate transformer "experts" (e.g., one for vision-language, one for actions) share a single attention stream, so each modality gets specialized parameters without losing joint reasoning. - Vision-language model (VLM): A model that jointly understands images and text. - Diffusion transformer: A transformer trained to turn noise into structured outputs by iterative denoising, here generating robot actions rather than images. - Action chunks: Short sequences of future actions (e.g., the next ~50 motor commands) predicted in one shot instead of one step at a time. - Flow matching: A faster version of diffusion. The model learns a straight-line velocity field from noise to the target action, so it needs only a few integration steps instead of many denoising ones. Its peculiarity comes from its two stage training: 1. 100,000 hours of video shot through a UMI rig: a handheld 3D-printed gripper with a camera, worn by humans doing ordinary tasks in homes, shops, factories and offices. 2. Adapt to actual robot bodies with ~10,000 hours of real-robot data. It replaces the standard approach of teleoperating a real robot for every hour of training data. Its architecture is a Mixture-of-Transformers pairing a pre-trained Qwen3-VL vision-language model with a diffusion transformer that emits action chunks via flow matching, released in 2.6B, 5.1B and 10.5B parameter variants. However, if you read the entire paper ("Scaling VLA Models with over 100K Hours"), you realize that all of the scaling experiments on 20k hours. Therefore the headline "out-of-the-box success climbing 26% → 75% as pre-training data grows" tops out at 100% of 20k hours! What the full corpus does to that curve is never shown -> and this where things would become interesting! Xiaomi's own conclusion is that model size has stopped mattering and data is the binding constraint. The performance gap among different model sizes are less pronounced than those observed across different data scales. This result suggests that model capacity at the billions-parameter scale may already be sufficient to capture the current dataset's distribution. Which further asks the same question: why not use the 100k video hours? Anyway, I would definitely love to have a couple robots at home that can cooperate to pack my suitcase with items relevant to my next destination:

Léo

15,662 views • 22 days ago

HERMES AGENT BECOMES 10X MORE USEFUL WHEN YOU CONFIGURE THESE 5 THINGS. EACH ONE TAKES 5 MINUTES. MOST USERS NEVER TOUCH THEM. 1. THE RIGHT MODELS one model for everything = wrong model for most things. GPT-5.6 Sol: strongest reasoning. daily driver. access through your ChatGPT subscription (Plus or higher). Max plan unlocks higher reasoning effort. Grok 4.5: live X search. fastest responses. access through your X Premium+ subscription. "find me 3 high-engagement Hermes posts from the last 5 days." Grok pulls directly from X. no scraping. real-time. Kimi K3: design powerhouse. comparable quality to Claude Fable 5 at roughly 30% of the price. takes longer to generate. the quality justifies the wait. connect via Desktop app / Dashboard: Models → add provider. GPT-5.6: ChatGPT subscription → OAuth. Grok 4.5: X subscription → OAuth. Kimi K3: OpenRouter or Nous Portal. switch between them mid-session: /model [name] 2. PARALLEL TOOL CALLS Hermes used to call tools one at a time. Gmail, then calendar, then web search. sequential. now: multiple tool calls run simultaneously. "check my emails, check my calendar, tell me the weather in Dubai, and find the latest Hermes updates." four tools at once. results merge when all finish. what used to take 3 minutes takes 30 seconds. automatic after update. no config needed. hermes update 3. FASTER AND CHEAPER WEB SEARCH two improvements. one automatic, one you configure. AUTOMATIC (update only): v0.19.0 processes web pages differently. clean content straight to the agent without redundant processing steps. 60x faster. 49x cheaper. no config needed. CONFIGURE (Firecrawl): Firecrawl is the default scraping backend. strips HTML, ads, navigation, scripts. returns only the text your agent needs. 500 free credits per month on free tier. get your key from firecrawl .dev. add to .env: FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=your_key Nous Portal subscribers: Firecrawl is included through Tool Gateway. no separate key needed. SAVE MORE (auxiliary model): web summarization defaults to your main model. route it to a cheap model: auxiliary: web_extract: model: google/gemini-3-flash-preview cheap model reads the page. premium model reasons about the content. 4. MORNING BRIEF WITH EMAIL + CALENDAR connect Gmail and Google Calendar via MCP: 1. go to mcp .zapier.com 2. add Gmail: enable read and draft only. never enable send. one automated email from the wrong context can cost a relationship. 3. add Google Calendar: read access. 4. click connect → sign in → regenerate token 5. paste the token into Hermes chat tell your agent: "create a

HERMES AGENT BECOMES 10X MORE USEFUL WHEN YOU CONFIGURE THESE 5 THINGS. EACH ONE TAKES 5 MINUTES. MOST USERS NEVER TOUCH THEM. 1. THE RIGHT MODELS one model for everything = wrong model for most things. GPT-5.6 Sol: strongest reasoning. daily driver. access through your ChatGPT subscription (Plus or higher). Max plan unlocks higher reasoning effort. Grok 4.5: live X search. fastest responses. access through your X Premium+ subscription. "find me 3 high-engagement Hermes posts from the last 5 days." Grok pulls directly from X. no scraping. real-time. Kimi K3: design powerhouse. comparable quality to Claude Fable 5 at roughly 30% of the price. takes longer to generate. the quality justifies the wait. connect via Desktop app / Dashboard: Models → add provider. GPT-5.6: ChatGPT subscription → OAuth. Grok 4.5: X subscription → OAuth. Kimi K3: OpenRouter or Nous Portal. switch between them mid-session: /model [name] 2. PARALLEL TOOL CALLS Hermes used to call tools one at a time. Gmail, then calendar, then web search. sequential. now: multiple tool calls run simultaneously. "check my emails, check my calendar, tell me the weather in Dubai, and find the latest Hermes updates." four tools at once. results merge when all finish. what used to take 3 minutes takes 30 seconds. automatic after update. no config needed. hermes update 3. FASTER AND CHEAPER WEB SEARCH two improvements. one automatic, one you configure. AUTOMATIC (update only): v0.19.0 processes web pages differently. clean content straight to the agent without redundant processing steps. 60x faster. 49x cheaper. no config needed. CONFIGURE (Firecrawl): Firecrawl is the default scraping backend. strips HTML, ads, navigation, scripts. returns only the text your agent needs. 500 free credits per month on free tier. get your key from firecrawl .dev. add to .env: FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=your_key Nous Portal subscribers: Firecrawl is included through Tool Gateway. no separate key needed. SAVE MORE (auxiliary model): web summarization defaults to your main model. route it to a cheap model: auxiliary: web_extract: model: google/gemini-3-flash-preview cheap model reads the page. premium model reasons about the content. 4. MORNING BRIEF WITH EMAIL + CALENDAR connect Gmail and Google Calendar via MCP: 1. go to mcp .zapier.com 2. add Gmail: enable read and draft only. never enable send. one automated email from the wrong context can cost a relationship. 3. add Google Calendar: read access. 4. click connect → sign in → regenerate token 5. paste the token into Hermes chat tell your agent: "create a

YanXbt

29,620 views • 1 month ago