Teknium Adds Perplexity AI Backend to Hermes Agent

Teknium, co-founder and lead engineer at Nous Research and creator of the Hermes open-source LLM family, posted that users can now select Perplexity AI as the web search and web scrape tool backend in Hermes Agent. The announcement includes an attached fantasy RPG-style illustration showing a stone tower with a blue beam and a banner reading NEW WEB BACKEND UNLOCKED. The post presents the change as immediately available for the agent.