Google AI Just Released Nano-Banana 2 | Nous Research Releases ‘Hermes Agent’

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Google just dropped Nano-Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image), a 1.8B parameter edge model that effectively ends the ‘latency resistance’ on mobile generative AI by delivering native 4K image synthesis in under 500ms. By leveraging Latent Consistency Distillation (LCD) to bypass traditional iterative denoising and Grouped-Query Attention (GQA) to keep thermals in check, Google has managed to pack studio-quality character consistency and modular fine-tuning via the Banana-SDK into a footprint small enough for mid-range hardware. For devs, this launch represents a definitive shift from massive cloud clusters to high-efficiency on-device execution, providing a local-first toolkit that balances blistering speed with the privacy and cost-efficiency required for the next generation of real-time mobile applications..........… Read the full analysis/article here.

Tired of AI with "goldfish memory"? Nous Research just launched Hermes Agent, an open-source system designed to evolve from a simple agent into a persistent digital colleague agent that actually gets smarter the more you use it. By leveraging a multi-level memory system—including searchable Skill Documents—and providing persistent machine access via Docker, SSH, and local backends, Hermes Agent doesn't just write code; it lives in your environment and retains its state across sessions. Powered by the highly steerable Hermes-3 (Llama 3.1) and the Atropos RL framework, it bridges the gap between reasoning and execution, offering engineers a sovereign, self-improving assistant that stays entirely within their own infrastructure while communicating via familiar tools like Telegram and Slack...........… Read the full analysis/article here.

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