Above the Fog

Hermes Agent vs Meta Muse

Hermes Agent and Meta Muse side by side on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar, on Oct 29, 2026: Hermes Agent is 💤 Quiet with a hype score of 1 and Meta Muse is 💤 Quiet with 0. The radar’s curated relations list them as competitors.

Data note: 7 of the last 14 days were not collected live. No collection ran on Oct 22–Oct 28, or a later run refilled those days at once. Every hype score is measured against the 14 days before it and those days are thin, so the scores, the stages and the week-over-week theme trends may read higher than they are until they leave that window on Nov 12.

At a glance

MeasureHermes AgentMeta Muse
Stage💤 Quiet💤 Quiet
Hype score0.80
7-day change−14.2−3.9
In hype sincenot in hype nownot in hype now
Peak, 30 days40.2 on Oct 8, 202662.1 on Sep 30, 2026
Stories in 7 days1378
Share of voice, 7 days0.1%0.7%
Sources above normal0 of 190 of 19
Category🤖 Agents🤖 Agents

Hype score, last 30 days

Both hype scores by day, newest first; on the page’s chart, Hermes Agent is the solid line and Meta Muse the dashed one.

DayHermes AgentMeta Muse
Oct 29, 20260.80
Oct 28, 20261.11.2
Oct 27, 20261.60
Oct 26, 202610
Oct 25, 202600
Oct 24, 202600
Oct 23, 20261.22.7
Oct 22, 2026153.9
Oct 21, 2026157.4
Oct 20, 202613.811.4
Oct 19, 20263.81.3
Oct 18, 20260.60
Oct 17, 202615.20
Oct 16, 202611.63
Oct 15, 202628.82.8
Oct 14, 202628.83
Oct 13, 202627.632.5
Oct 12, 202629.839.3
Oct 11, 202626.710.7
Oct 10, 202614.811.1
Oct 9, 202614.223.7
Oct 8, 202640.223
Oct 7, 202624.613
Oct 6, 202616.728.7
Oct 5, 202614.713.9
Oct 4, 202614.90.5
Oct 3, 202616.33.3
Oct 2, 20262417.7
Oct 1, 202626.233
Sep 30, 202627.162.1

Shared themes

What the stories of both topics in the last 7 days are about, as classified by the Jev model (a story can carry several themes):

Hermes Agent: stories behind it

  1. Cách cài AI tại nhà Bảo Mật & Miễn Phí với Local AI (Ollama + Hermes Agent) — Podcasts (Apple + niche RSS) (Huy Dao Podcast) · Oct 29
  2. Hermes Paper Harness: Native SwiftUI iPhone Client for Hermes Agent — Hacker News (apps.apple.com) · Oct 28 · score 1 · 0 comments
  3. Hermes Agent Ran Unattended Against Thai Finance Ministry — Google News (RSS) (OrcaRouter) · Oct 30
  4. DeepSeek "Personality" — Reddit (r/DeepSeek) · Oct 28 · score 22 · 17 comments
  5. 10 coding agents, one Qwen 3.8 27B, same llama-server: tokens and cache reuse differ more than pass rates — Reddit (r/LocalLLaMA) · Oct 30

Meta Muse: stories behind it

  1. Whoops: Meta's Muse Share Links Disclosed All Sorts of Super-Sensitive User Data — Hacker News (techdirt.com) · Oct 27 · score 3 · 3 comments
  2. Meta's Muse Realtime Avatar turns any image into a talking AI character — Hacker News (research.meta.ai) · Oct 28 · score 2 · 1 comment
  3. AMD says it will invest $1B in Meta's equity offering, its first Helios rackscale systems are installed at Meta, and its EPYC CPUs power Meta's Muse AI agent — Techmeme (CNBC) · Oct 28
  4. Meta Muse AI agent goes live in Singapore as concerns deepen for privacy, safety — Google News (RSS) (Techgoondu) · Oct 29
  5. Meta launches Muse AI agent in Singapore to help users shop, plan travel and manage emails — Google News (RSS) (CNA) · Oct 28

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