Nous Research’s Hermes for Businesses, Microsoft Agent Lightning, and Atlassian’s OpenAI Partnership

Podcast: UpNext AI · UpNext Labs

Opublikowano: 2026-10-08

Nous Research is launching Hermes for Businesses after a Series B round, Microsoft Research has released Agent Lightning version one, and Atlassian and OpenAI are expanding Rovo’s use of frontier models and the Teamwork Graph. Also covered: the TaoD2C-Bench study of industrial UI code generation, Butterfly Effect’s financing after Manus separated from Meta, a GPU-access startup launched by Anjney Midha and former tech executives, and ICANN applications for .agent and .agi. [Nous Research’s business-agent launch and financing](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/07/nous-research-confirms-it-hit-1-5b-valuation-launches-ai-agents-for-business-users/): Hermes for Businesses accompanies a $90 million Series B round at a valuat...