NVIDIA powers Hermes self-improving agents on RTX, faces BIPA lawsuit

NVIDIA showcased Hermes, a self-improving local agent running on RTX PCs and DGX Spark with Qwen 3.6 27B matching 400B-class accuracy at one-sixteenth the size. Jensen's foundation bought $108M of CoreWeave compute for academics. NVIDIA also faces an Illinois BIPA suit over voice training.