Tool Use

I talked to a group of people who build on Hermes Agent and asked them why they chose it over everything else. Hermes Agent is the clear winner. @NousResearch @karan4d @WolframRvnwlf @twodogseeds @evvaaannnn @katspigeon

Hermes Agent deep dive YouTube: youtu.be/1GMSGEN0UaQ Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7tF7zf…

I talked to a group of people who build on Hermes Agent and asked them why they chose it over everything else. Hermes Agent is the clear winner. @NousResearch @karan4d @WolframRvnwlf @twodogseeds @evvaaannnn @katspigeon

New @ToolUsePodcast episode by @MikeBirdTech is live and I had the pleasure of being part of it alongside @karan4d from @NousResearch and three other great builders. We went deep on Hermes Agent: self-improving skills, ambient agents, why the harness matters as much as the model, and why open source AI must win. I got to share some @WolfBenchAI insights and real-world use cases. Give it a listen on Spotify or watch it on YouTube - links in reply.

I got to sit down and chat w/ my friend @MikeBirdTech & @ToolUsePodcast about the meta of what @Teknium and @NousResearch and @sudoingX have built with HERMES-AGENT Some different perspectives from some different long, running agent builders here. Please check it out and make sure to check out the earlier versions of tool use. This is a really awesome podcast with some deep dives on some of the largest sort of archetype landmarks we've moved through into calling and extreme agentic abilities over the last couple of years and if you don't know, Mike, he is one of the core members of launched the open interpreter project, which was just literally miles ahead and on par with almost everything we're still doing today but w/ way better nodeps and harnesses... like hermes-agent m.youtube.com/watch?v=1GMSGE… open.spotify.com/episode/7tF7zf…

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How do I let my agent buy stuff? Specifically, what are the open source options for giving an AI agent (doesn't matter which one[s]) access to a wallet or make payments in a safe way?

YouTube: youtu.be/NxvcSAO3YII Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1qIS99…

Building is easy. Getting traction is hard Mano Tsiris, head of growth at @optimaldotai, explains to us how to find and win customers in the AI age

YouTube: youtu.be/Kaq84pAXnIQ Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3IiBgJ…

This week, we're diving into any-llm, a tool from @MozillaAI Nathan Brake build any-llm and explains the different use-cases and benefits to a tool like any-llm. - quickly switch between models with a single line code change - test different models to see what will accomplish your goals - robust evals to optimize your system I like it! And we had a fun chat Of course, it's fully open source

Stop over-complicating your RAG chunking. 🛑 If you’re spending days on custom agentic chunking logic before trying a simple paragraph split, you’re doing it wrong. Senior Developer Advocate Arjun Patel breaks down the "Keep It Simple" framework for data prep: 📍 Wikipedia? Paragraphs. 📍 Textbooks? Sub-chapters. 📍 Multimodal PDFs? Page-by-page. Check out the full conversation with @MikeBirdTech on @ToolUsePodcast that covers sparse/dense embeddings, reranking, Pinecone’s Claude Code plugin, and more: youtube.com/watch?v=36FDCi…

How do you know if you need a vector database? My coworker Arjun Patel gives you the answer and demos some easy ways to get started on the latest @ToolUsePodcast episode ⤵️ youtu.be/36FDCiaE5zA

YouTube: youtu.be/nfJI-MwfUSg Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0cEwuq…

If you rent your AI, how long will you have a moat? Max McCrea, founder of Greyhaven, joins us to talk about sovereign AI and how to architect systems for your business that maximizes data control. This is a great chat for understanding the current state of sovereign AI and how you can implement it today

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6AVZPa… YouTube: youtu.be/36FDCiaE5zA

Do you need a vector database? Arjun Patel from @pinecone joins us to go deep on vector databases and demos some easy ways to get started

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3Y4ujm… YouTube: youtu.be/bLgqy5rbzLo

Want to make your own video or image model? @gregschoeninger from Oxen AI walks us through how you can fine tune a model for your task (as cheap as $1!) and get outsized performance

@gregschoeninger @MikeBirdTech Thanks for coming on and teaching us all how approachable it is to fine tune our own models!

Had a great chat about Fine-Tuning image/video models with @MikeBirdTech last week! He's got a great YouTube channel and podcast with some gold hidden in there if you haven't seen it yet. youtube.com/watch?v=bLgqy5…