#796: Own Your Intelligence Stack with Tommy Eastman

<p>Tommy Eastman of Nous Research joins Marty to break down Hermes Agent and why owning your intelligence stack matters. They cover the leap from chatbots to autonomous agentic AI, self-improving memory, and model-agnostic harnesses that kill vendor lock-in. Tommy explains how open source models now handle most enterprise work at a fraction of frontier lab costs, why feeding company IP to OpenAI and Anthropic is a fiduciary risk, the GPU compute squeeze, trusted execution environments, and why Big AI lobbying against open source is disingenuous.</p>

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<p>Hermes Agent: <a href="https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/">https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/</a></p>

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