Hermes Agent NEW Super-App and DeepSeek v4 Catches Up To Opus 4.8?

TL;DR

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  DeepSeek V4 is getting real traction in production: Flo Crivello of Lindy says they moved 100 percent of traffic from Anthropic to DeepSeek V4, saving millions while seeing better performance on some core agent tasks.

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  The pricing gap is brutal for closed models: Riley compares DeepSeek V4 Pro at about $1.30 per 1 million input plus output tokens with Anthropic Opus 4.8 at $30 and OpenAI GPT 5.5 at $35, framing DeepSeek as 23x to 27x cheaper.

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  Codex and Cursor are both becoming internal app builders: OpenAI's new Codex Sites and Cursor's Canvas let teams generate and deploy internal tools connected to Gmail, Slack, and company data, which Riley sees as the first step toward full AI coding super apps.

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  Cursor may be aiming at a GitHub-for-AI future: Riley reads Canvas plus new public profiles as clues that Cursor wants a world where people share, fork, and remix AI-built apps, not just code repositories.

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  Apple may be turning iMessage into an agent store: Poke is now an officially approved iMessage agent with gray Apple-style messaging, and Riley thinks WWDC could bring an approval path for companies to ship agents directly inside Messages.

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  Hermes is emerging as the open super-app alternative: Hermes Desktop replaces the old terminal-heavy setup with a polished app that supports multiple model providers, built-in skills, memory, messaging connections, and artifact management.