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Run Hermes Agent FREE With This NEW Model 🤯
The AI Firehose · 2026-08-22 · 7 min
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NEW Free AI Agent Model: Run Hermes Agent for FREE (Ox Alpha) Discover Ox Alpha, a massive 295B parameter agentic AI model that you can use for free inside your Agent OS for the next two weeks. Learn how to set up this powerful tool to handle coding, research, and business automation tasks without spending a dime.
✨ Episode Outline — click any point to jump to it in the episode
Problem solved
Running a capable AI agent for business tasks without paying for frontier-model API costs.
Benefits
- OxAlpha is free for 2 weeks via News Portal and OpenRouter
- 295B-parameter agentic model with 256,000-token context window
- Runs inside free, open Hermes Agent — no technical skills needed
- Learn mode saves studied guides as reusable skills
- Offload simple tasks to free model, save frontier models for hard work
Use cases
- Coded a full AI Profit Boardroom landing page in about 60 seconds
- Opened a website via live tool use inside Agent OS
- /learn studied an AI automation growth guide and saved it as a skill
- Split workloads: frontier model plans content strategy, OxAlpha handles writing/research
- Switch to OmniRoute in a second profile when OxAlpha gets rate limited
KPIs / results
- 295 billion parameters, 256,000-token memory window
- One quadrillion tokens/day stated free capacity
- ~60 seconds per response and per landing-page build
- 38,000-member AI Success Lab community
Tools / build
- Hermes Agent OS
- OxAlpha via News Portal / OpenRouter
- Hermes Apollo voice agent
- Paperclip AI agent org chart
- OxAlpha Coder with live preview
📑 Chapters — tap a time to jump there
00:00
Intro: New Free AI Agent Model
- New free agentic model demoed live inside Hermes Agent OS
00:25
What is Ox Alpha? (295B Parameters)
- OxAlpha: 295B parameters, 256k-token context, agentic not just chat
- Free inside News Portal for 2 weeks
00:57
Live Demo: Coding a Landing Page
- Task: code AI Profit Boardroom landing page
- Built full page in ~60 seconds; solid for a free model
01:32
How to Set Up Hermes & Ox Alpha
- Type 'hermes model' in terminal, select News Portal, grab model
- Free API key; OpenRouter alternative; one quadrillion tokens/day capacity
02:33
Advanced Tool Use & Learn Mode
- Opened a website via live tool use
- /learn studied an AI automation guide, saved it as reusable skill
04:29
Scaling Your Business with Free Models
- Use OxAlpha for small tasks, frontier models for hard ones
- Switch to OmniRoute profile if rate limited; also free in KiloCode
05:32
Full Agent OS Walkthrough
- Tour: Hermes chat, Apollo voice agent, Paperclip AI org chart
- Hermes Oracle, Astro Studio, outreach tool, goal mode, memory, OxAlpha Coder
06:42
Summary & How to Get the Setup
- OxAlpha free 2 weeks via News Portal and OpenRouter
- Full Agent OS zip + install walkthrough inside AI Profit Boardroom
Run Hermes Agent FREE With This New Model Today I'm going to show you a brand new AI model that is totally free right now This thing is huge, it's smart and it works like a real AI agent I'm going to run it live inside my Agent OS so you can see exactly how it performs I'll show you how to set it up in just a few clicks, no tech skills needed Stick around because this could change how you run your business So there's a brand new free model out right now called OxAlpha And you can use it right inside News Portal today OxAlpha is a huge model, 295 billion parameters And it's free inside News Portal for the next 2 weeks This is an agentic model which means it doesn't just chat with you It can actually go do tasks for you It also has a huge memory window, 256,000 tokens So it can hold a lot of information at once You can run this whole thing inside something called Hermes Agent Completely free for the next 2 weeks And today I'm running everything you see right inside my Agent OS So you get a real look at how it actually performs Let me show you a quick demo so you can see it in action Right here inside my Agent OS First I just asked it how it's doing today And it answered just fine Then I gave it a real task I said code out a landing page for my AI profit boardroom That shows people how AI automation helps them get more customers, more leads And saves them time every single day And then I waited for it to build it out Hey, if we haven't met already I'm the digital avatar of Julian Goldie CEO of SEO Agency Goldie Agency Whilst he's helping clients get more leads and customers I'm here to help you get the latest AI updates Julian Goldie reads every comment So make sure you comment below Now let's talk about how you actually set this up Because it's way easier than you think First you open your terminal Then you type in Hermes model just like that Once you've done that You go to News Portal at the top of the screen And select it there Then you just grab your model straight from News Portal That's really it And here's something cool You can also get a free API key for Ox Alpha too So Ox Alpha is free through News Portal For a limited time And they've said they have capacity for one quadrillion tokens a day That is a massive amount of room for you to use But this offer goes away soon So don't sleep on it Now if you don't want to use Hermes Agent through News Portal You can also grab Ox Alpha through OpenRouter instead Just search for Ox Alpha there and select it This model is built specifically for agent work So it's made for tasks, tools and reasoning Not just chatting Now let's get back to that landing page test I ran inside Agent OS It gave me a link so I opened it up And honestly it looked pretty nice It's not going to beat the top frontier models out there But for a free model it did a solid job It was fast to respond to And it built the whole landing page in about 60 seconds That's not bad at all for a free model Okay, let's keep testing this thing inside Agent OS Because there's more it can do Inside the chat I asked it to open up a website for us And it actually did it That's tool use working in real time Then I tried something called learn mode You type in slash learn Then give it a link to a guide And it actually studies that guide and learns from it So I gave it a guide about growing a business with AI automation Kind of like what we teach inside the AI Profit Boardroom And it read through the whole thing And gave me a breakdown of what it learned Then it saved that as a new skill it can use again later That's actually really useful Because now it remembers it for future tasks Now here's something I want you to know OxAlpha is just one piece of the puzzle Everything I'm showing you today Is running inside my agent operating system Which plugs models like this straight into my business And I'm going to show you the whole thing up close A little later in this video If you want that whole setup for yourself Whole zip file ready to install That's exactly what you get When you join my AI Profit Boardroom It's the best place to scale your business Get more customers And save time with AI automation Now typically when I use OxAlpha inside Hermes It takes about 60 seconds for each response That's not lightning fast But remember this is a free model And the cool thing is You can just give it a task And let it run in the background While you do other things So it works in three simple steps First you plug Hermes into your agent setup Second you connect either News Portal Or Open Router for the next two weeks Third you use OxAlpha as the brain that powers the whole thing Handling coding, tool use and agent tasks This is also an open model So it's not locked behind one company And by the way it's also available for free Inside something called KiloCode So you've got a few different ways to plug it in Now let's talk about how it actually performs In my own testing It's nowhere near as strong as the top frontier models out there right now But here's the thing It's free So you really can't complain about that And it's simple to set up too You really don't need to be technical at all It's just a couple of steps in your terminal And you're good to go Some people hear free and think there's a catch But there really isn't one here Hermes agent itself is free and open And OxAlpha is free through both Open Router and News Portal Here's a smart way to use this If you're running any kind of agent setup for your business You can use free models like OxAlpha To handle your smaller simpler tasks While keeping a stronger frontier model As your main brain for the harder stuff That way you save your best model For the tasks that really need it And let OxAlpha handle the rest Think about how that could work For something like the AI Profit Boardroom Where you might use a strong model To plan out a content strategy Then hand off smaller writing or research tasks To a free model like this one One more tip If you ever get rate limited Or slowed down on OxAlpha There's another free option called OmniRoute You can switch to Inside your agent setup You can actually have one profile running OxAlpha And another running OmniRoute So if one gets throttled You just switch over to the other Pretty handy if you're running a lot of tasks at once The other thing I'll say is Don't be the person who says I'll try this later This offer is only around for about 2 weeks And with that much free capacity on the table Now really is the time to jump in and try it for yourself Okay, now let me actually show you the full system I run all of this inside Because this is really the whole point of today's video This is my agent operating system And it's where Hermes, OxAlpha And every other tool I use all live together in one place So right here this is the main chat with Hermes Where I can talk to my agent and give it any task Then over here we've got Hermes Apollo Which is a voice activated version of Hermes agent So I can literally just talk to it And it builds things out for me Next to that is Paperclip And this is where things get really fun Because inside Paperclip You can build out a full team of AI agents Laid out like an organization chart Almost like hiring a whole team Except they're all AI Then we've also got Hermes Oracle and Hermes Astro Studio Plus a built-in outreach tool for sending emails automatically There's also a mixture of agents set up in here Where a few different models work together on the same task And then over here is the control room and goal mode Where you set a goal And the agents figure out how to get there We've also plugged in memory So your agents remember what you've told them before And since we love OxAlpha We've even added an OxAlpha Coder in here too So you can plug in that free API And build things out with a live preview Right inside the same system So that's the whole agent operating system All in one place, all working together So to wrap it all up OxAlpha is a brand new, huge, free AI model That you can run inside Hermes Agents starting today It's agentic It's got a massive memory window And it's free through News Portal and OpenRouter For the next two weeks It's not the strongest model out there But as a free model It's a great way to power your agent workflows Handle smaller tasks And free up your stronger models for the big stuff Now here's the thing I'm not just going to tell you To figure the agent operating system out yourself If you want this exact setup The one you just watched me use You can literally get the full zip file For the agent operating system Ready to install inside the AI Profit Boardroom We also walk you through the entire install process Step by step So you're not stuck trying to piece it together on your own If you want to run your business With a full team of AI agents like this one That's exactly what you get when you join And if you want the full process The SOPs And over 100 AI use cases like this one Join the AI Success Lab Links are in the comments and description You'll get all the video notes from there Plus access to our community Of 38,000 members Who are crushing it with AI See you in the next one So let's get started All the time And I'll talk to you in the next one And I'll talk to you in the next one