Nous Research just productized Hermes as an enterprise agent framework. We're talking multi-step workflows, private deployment support, and actual production hardening—not just a research demo.
This is the inflection point: open source agents are graduating from sandbox experiments to real enterprise infrastructure. The bottleneck shifts from "can we build agents" to "can we train and serve them at scale."
Next test: distributed training infra that can handle continuous fine-tuning for production agent workloads. The compute requirements for keeping these systems updated and domain-adapted are going to be brutal.
This is the inflection point: open source agents are graduating from sandbox experiments to real enterprise infrastructure. The bottleneck shifts from "can we build agents" to "can we train and serve them at scale."
Next test: distributed training infra that can handle continuous fine-tuning for production agent workloads. The compute requirements for keeping these systems updated and domain-adapted are going to be brutal.