Hermes Mixture of Agents DESTROYS Fable 5?

**Julian Goldie** (0:00)
Today, we have a brand new update from Hermes Agent, and they've released something called Hermes Mixture of Agents Presets. So this is a way to combine multiple models that you can access into one, and then you can choose from a powerful variety of mixture of experts and mixture of agents that work together in parallel. It's kind of similar to if you've come across Fusion, which achieved Fable 5 level intelligence by having multiple models work together. We also saw this with Sakana Fugu that came out this week, and that also achieves Fable 5 level intelligence. This is a way of basically getting multiple answers from different AI models working together.
The reason that they're doing this is because if you look, for example, at the release of Cheapity 5.6, which is a limited preview today, we also have the release of Claude Fable 5 that is gradually coming back, but only for 100 different approved partners. All of these models are getting gated, which means that, for example, if you want to have Fable 5 level intelligence or frontier level stuff, well, it's very difficult to do that with the new releases that are just in preview. So how do you get around that? Well, what you can do as an alternative is have multiple agent models or multiple models working together to give you better answers. And this is essentially what Hermes Agent are now releasing. And they're also working on a new benchmark, which is Hermes Bench. And you can see on Hermes Bench that they've announced, on Hermes Bench, our upcoming agentic benchmark, Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5 reference mixture of agents scores 8% higher than Opus and 11% higher than GPT. So basically, you can improve the performance of your AI agents by using this system instead of relying on just one model at a time. Now obviously, I can imagine that would use more tokens.
But at the same time, you can see that mixture of agents will work better together than just having one model working in isolation. Now, at this point, you're probably thinking, okay, how do we get this working for me? So what you can do is, if you go into your terminal, you can type in Hermes model.
And this is a new setup, so make sure you're updated. First thing you want to do is just run Hermes update inside your terminal. Or you can do that inside your dashboard. If you go to the Hermes Manage section, scroll down and click on Update Hermes. Once you've done that, then what you want to do is go to Hermes model. So you type that inside your terminal. And then from here, you'll see an option that says Mixture of Agents. And these are named presets. So what that means is basically they have preset options for multiple different models working together with Mixture of Agents. So these are kind of like pre-made formulas where you can have these models working together. So if we click on Enter here, we can then start switching those around. And then once you've done that, if you go to your model section, click on Change inside your dashboard, you will see the model settings here. And you can load mixtures of agents. So you can configure this directly.
So this is coming soon.
And they've also talked about Fable 5 level stuff as well, right? So they've said, you might be wondering as we did, if it is Fable 5 level. And obviously nobody really has access to Fable 5, but the Hermes benchmarks look promising according to their own words. So it's a pretty cool way to work around this situation with the preview models. And it's now available inside Hermes Agent, so you can get access to it.
They're also going to be releasing a new benchmark for all this stuff too. And it's also provider agnostics. This is not limited to, for example, like News Portal or Open Router is provider agnostic, which means you can plug in whatever you want. Now, if you want the full documentation on that, they've got that inside the Hermes Agent News Portal details.
So you can select a preset through the normal provider surfaces. So for example, you can type in model default provider MOA or model review provider MOA. And these are the terminal commands you can use to switch between them.
You can also use these on agent loops as well. And if you want to configure the presets, you can configure that from your dashboard. You can also do this inside the desktop app and you can do Hermes MOA configure and then configure the name of your Hermes agent profile. Or you can go to the config. Now, if we look at what's performing the best on these Hermes bench scores, you can see the Opus aggregator. So Opus 4.8 plus GPC 5.5 is scoring the best. And then you got Opus 4.8 and GPC 5.5 below that. So if you're wondering, okay, does this actually work in reality?