Hermes AI Agent + Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (FREE + OpenSource!)

Hermes AI Agent plus Nemetron 3, Nano Omni just dropped and this is the first free open source AI agent that can see, hear, read and think all at once on your own computer. No paid tools, no cloud, no fees, just one model doing what used to take five. Let me show you what this thing can actually do. You give it a video file, a long one, maybe a meeting recording, maybe a tutorial you want to learn from, maybe a sales call you need to review.

The old way, you'd need one tool to pull the audio, another tool to read what was said, a third tool to look at the slides, a fourth tool to write a summary. Four tools, four steps, four chances for things to break. Now you drop the file in, Hermes watches it, Hermes hears it, Hermes reads the slides on screen and Hermes gives you back a full breakdown with the exact moments that matter. One agent, one file, done.

That's the shift and it's happening right now today on hardware most of you already own. Let me back up and tell you what these two pieces actually are because the names sound like sci-fi but the idea is simple. Hey, if we haven't met already, I'm the digital avatar of Julian Goldie, CEO of SEO agency Goldie Agency. Whilst he's helping clients get more leads and customers, I'm here to help you get the latest AI updates.

Julian Goldie reads every comment so make sure you comment below. Nemetron 3 Nano Omni is NVIDIA's new open model, came out in April 2026. The Omni part is the key word, it means one model handles every kind of input. Audio, D.O., images, text, all in the same brain.

Most models you've used can only do one or two of these. You'd have a chat model for text, then a different model for images, then another one for voice. They didn't talk to each other, things got lost between them. Nemetron 3 fixes that.

It's built on something called a hybrid MOE design, stands for mixture of experts. Think of it like a small team of specialists living inside one model. When you ask a question, only the right specialists wake up, the rest stay asleep. So even though the full model is 30 billion parameters, only three billion are active at any moment.

That's why it runs so fast and uses so little memory, up to four times less memory and compute than older models that try to do the same job. It also uses something called mamba layers mixed with regular transformer layers. The mamba parts are great at handling long sequences, like long videos or long documents. The transformer parts are great at precision.

Together, you get speed without losing accuracy. That's the model. Brain. Now for Hermes.

Hermes is the agent built by Noose Research. Think of Hermes as the body that the brain lives in. The model alone is just smart. The agent is what actually does stuff.

Hermes gives Nemetron memory that lasts, gives it the ability to run tasks in the background while you go do other things. It can build new skills as it goes. So the more you use it, the better it gets at your specific work. Put them together and you have an AI that runs on your own machine, sees and hears everything you show it, remembers what you did last week and quietly works in the background while you sleep.

Now here's a quick thing before we keep going. If you want to learn how to actually set this up and use it for your business, come check out the AI Profit Boardroom. We've already built a full setup walkthrough for Hermes and Nemetron 3, step by step. We've got four coaching calls every week where you can ask live questions about your own setup, your own use case, your own workflow.

We've got daily tutorials showing you new ways to put agents like this to work. There's a 30-day roadmap built around running local AI agents, a prompt library full of agent prompts that just work, and a member map so you can find people near you who are already running this stuff. Link is in the comments and description. Okay, back to it.

Let's talk about why this matters more than the other AI news this week. For the last two years, every cool AI agent has lived in the cloud. You sent your data out. You waited for a reply.

You hoped the company didn't change the rules on you. You hoped your data stayed private. You watched the bill grow every month. Local agents flip all of that.

Your data never leaves your machine. There's no monthly fee. There's no rate limit. There's no rule change that breaks your whole workflow next Tuesday.

You own it. The problem with local agents up until now? They were dumb. They couldn't see images well.

They couldn't hear audio. They forgot what you told them five minutes ago. They were toys, not tools. Nemetron 3, Nano, Omni, and Hermes changed that.

This is the first time a free, open, local stack can hold its own against the big paid tools, and in some tasks, beat them. Let me get specific about what's inside Nemetron 3 that makes the multimodal stuff work. The model was trained to handle vision, audio, and text in a unified way. That means when you show it a video, it doesn't split the file into pieces and send each piece to a different brain.

It looks at everything at once. So it can answer a question like, what did the speaker say at the moment the chart appeared on screen, without losing the connection between the spoken words and what was shown. That sounds small. It's not.

That's the gap that's been killing AI agents for two years. Real work isn't just text. The work is messy. It's videos with people talking over slides.

It's screenshots with handwritten notes. It's audio recordings with background noise. Most models drop half the information. Nemetron 3 keeps it, and it cites its answers.

So when you ask, where in the video did they talk about the price, it gives you the exact timestamp. You can verify. You don't have to trust it blindly. Now Hermes, the agent layer.

Hermes does three things that older agents couldn't do well. First, persistent memory. Most agents you've used have a memory that fits in one chat. Close the tab, lose everything.

Hermes uses a memory stack that saves what matters across sessions. Second, background execution. You can tell Hermes, watch my inbox, and when a customer asks about pricing, draft a reply and save it for me to review. Then you close your laptop.

Hermes keeps working. When you come back, the drafts are waiting. Third, self-improving skills. Every time Hermes does a task, it can save what worked as a new skill.

So next time you ask it to do something similar, it's faster, sharper, more accurate. Now let me walk you through how this actually gets set up in plain words. You start with Olimar. Olimar is a free tool that runs AI models on your own computer.

You download Olimar. You pull the Nemetron 3 nano-omniweights from Hugging Face. The weights are just the model files. They're free.

You install them through Olimar with one command. Then you grab Hermes from the Noose Research GitHub page. Free. You install it on the same machine.

You point Hermes at your local Olimar setup so Hermes knows where to find the brain. You don't need a giant gaming computer for this. Because Nemetron 3 only fires up 3 billion active parameters at a time, it runs on regular laptops. NVIDIA built it that way on purpose.

They wanted everyday people to actually use it. Now, real talk, there are limits. Nemetron 3 nano-omni is good. It's not perfect.

For some tasks, the big pay tools still pull ahead. If you're doing very long, very complex reasoning, the cloud giants have the edge. If you need the absolute best image generation, this isn't that tool. But for 80% of the work most small businesses need, this stack does it.

For free. On your own machine. With your data staying yours. And the gap is closing fast.

A year ago, no free local model could do half of what Nemetron 3 does today. The pace of these open releases is wild. NVIDIA, Meta, Mistral, Noose Research, Alibaba. They're all racing.

Every couple of months, the open tools jump forward. The paid tools jump too. But the open ones are catching up. Hermes AI Agent plus Nemetron 3 nano-omni is the most important free AI release of 2026 so far.

Puts a full multimodal agent on your own computer. Sees, hears, reads, and remembers. Works in the background. Learns.

And it costs nothing to run. If you want a 30-day roadmap to actually put this to work in your business, come join us in the AI Profit boardroom. We're walking through Hermes setup step by step. We've got coaching calls four times a week where you can ask about your own use case.

Daily tutorials showing new ways to use local agents. A prompt library tuned for Hermes style workflows. A member map so you can connect with other people running local AI near you. Those are inside building right now.

And a lot of them are already running open source agent stacks just like this one. Link is in the comments and description or go to aiprofitboardroom.com. And if you want the full process, the SOPs, and 100 plus AI use cases like this one, join the AI Success Lab. It's our free community.

67,000 members who are using AI to save time and grow their work every day. You'll get all the video notes from this episode plus the setup links for Hermes and Nemetron 3. Links are in the comments and description. The tools are free.

The setup is doable. The only thing standing between you and a working local AI agent is a weekend. Don't sit on this one.