Hermes
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Hermes is the most used AI agent in the world
“Hermes is the most used agent in the world right now.”
Alex Finn: Hermes Overtook OpenClaw with Desktop Release
“I believe this is like the moment that Hermes overtook OpenClaw, to be quite honest”
Finn: Hermes produces polished updates while OpenClaw updates are rough and untested
“The Hermes updates have been very focused, polished, tested, and tied to really nice narratives that are focused on making life easier for the user. While I feel like the OpenClaw updates Have been more kind of shotgun, put everything in it, don't test it quit…”
Finn: Hermes agent comes preloaded with 150+ skills that increase costs
“Out of the box, your Hermes agent has, like, over a 150 skills installed, and each one of those actually adds context to your agent, and so that's increasing your cost.”
Finn: OpenClaw hardcodes models and requires framework updates for new releases
“OpenClaw, like every model is like hard coded in to OpenClaw. So you have to like ask them to switch models. And when new models come out, you have to wait for OpenClaw to update with that newest model.”
Finn: Use distinct profiles for differing skills and sub-agents for parallel tasks
“Different skill sets needed. Use different profiles. One skill set, but just on multiple strands at once. Use sub agents.”
Finn Scans for Business Opportunities Every 20 Minutes Using Local Qwen
“Every 20 minutes, I have my agent going and using the Quen three seven model locally.”
Garry Tan: AI agents are at their foundational Unix-era primitive stage
“It feels like we're right at that moment today, like we're just coming up with the new primitives for what an agentic system actually is, and you can see it in the parallel sort of development of like, we're just trying to do a thing, and it might be in Claude…”
Shane Mac: Convos lets users launch OpenClaw and Hermes agents on mobile
“Convos is an app that allows you to launch OpenClaw and Hermes agents on your phone.”
Gilbert: Leaning into heavy production constraints can build a valuable business
“Maybe if we just admit that we are heavily constrained, and then try to just lean into that constraint in the way that Hermes leans into every single Birkin bag must be handmade by one artisan, and we're going to build a business model around that. And it turn…”
Kairos uses non-nuclear test units to screen out unreliable reactor suppliers
“If a supplier could deliver for what we needed for ETU, maybe they could deliver what we need for Hermes. We'd have to test that, or future reactors. But if they couldn't deliver what we needed for the non-nuclear system, there was no way they'd have any chanc…”
Kairos secured an NRC nuclear construction permit in just over two years
“So fast forward, we got a construction permit from the Aggregatory Commission. First advanced reactor, you know, to submit and get, we did it in just over two years.”
Sanchez: Hermès Birkin buyers actively prefer paying higher prices
“No one who buys a Birkin Bag is trying to ask for discounts. This is a customer that actually wants to pay more for the alligator extra ridiculous thing on top.”
Louis Vuitton, Hermès, and Rolex founders were all 19th-century orphans
“The founders of arguably maybe the three biggest and most significant luxury brands in the world today were all orphans from the 1800.”
Rosenthal: Rolex is stronger than ever by restricting supply instead of price-gouging
“And Rolex followed this exact playbook over the last 10 years of not price-guiding themselves out of the market, but intentionally limiting supply, letting the secondary market go nuts, and then by keeping an even keel for themselves, and then now that there's…”
Jeff Schmidt: Hermes pioneered synthetic data training before it was standard
“So Hermes was very early to the idea that you could have synthetic data, which is that you could actually make, you could make a better model by taking an AI model, having it generate words and text, and then training a new a model on that output. This is now …”
Chamath: Starbucks lacks pricing power because it is not a premium brand
“The problem is they are not a premium brand, and the difference is Hermes, as an example, is a premium brand. They can charge whatever they want under all weather conditions. They have pricing power, so if their inputs go up, they can make sure they maintain m…”
Hermès manufactures 85% of its products by hand in France.
“And uniquely, Hermes still does 85% of their production by hand by Mastercraft's people in France, as we will talk a lot about.”
Hermès empowers local store managers to personally select their own store inventory.
“Basically, they embrace this idea that every store is for the local clientele, and that store managers know their clients the best. So therefore, store managers should get to pick what is in each store. And headquarters does not dictate what every store stocks…”
70% of shoppers on the Hermès e-commerce website are first-time buyers.
“Interestingly, 70% of buyers online for all the stuff that you can buy online were new to Hermes.”
Hermès destroys imperfect manufactured products to prevent them from entering the market.
“Hermes cares so deeply about their brand that they burn imperfect products so they never see the light of day.”
Baran: Japan's governance reform is driven by domestic pensions, not foreign activists
“This is not a CalPERS, CalSTRS, Hermes problem. This is a Japanese pension fund problem that the Japanese have to decide for themselves To start paying their beneficiaries properly.”
Helmer: Hermès attempted to launch a cognac line and failed
“I have in my cabinet at A bottle of Hermes cognac, and the story behind that is a friend of mine is one of the Hermes family, and he was over for dinner one night and brought this bottle with him, and Hermes tried to do cognac, and it didn't work, and so there…”