Nous Research confirms it hit $1.5B valuation, launches AI agents for business users
Nous Research raised a $90 million Series B at a $1.5 billion valuation and launched Hermes Agent for business users.
TechCrunch AI·7 Oct 2026
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Nous Research raised a $90 million Series B at a $1.5 billion valuation and launched Hermes Agent for business users.
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Alibaba Chairman Joe Tsai argues open-source AI offers Europe its best path to technological independence and infrastructure growth.
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Nvidia released digital twin and AI agent tooling for validating complex infrastructure changes in large-scale AI data centers.
Google Cloud launched U4 compute, aiming to deliver ultra-low latency and predictable performance for capital markets and trading venues.
AWS released a framework for AI leaders to evaluate agentic automation ROI across time savings, decision quality, and maintenance.
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Nvidia released updates to its cuOpt solver using mPDLP to scale optimization problems beyond 100 million variables.
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