Best AI Coding Models for Hermes Agent - Page 2

Laguna XS.2 is Poolside’s open-weight agentic coding model, built as the lightest and fastest model in the Laguna family. It is a 33B total-parameter Mixture of Experts model with 3B activated parameters, trained completely in-house on 30T tokens. As Poolside’s newest generation model open to the community, Laguna XS.2 is a second-generation architecture and the company’s first open-weight model, built on the lessons learned from training Laguna M.1 across synthetic data and reinforcement learning. The model is designed for agentic coding workflows, where it can code, act, iterate quickly, and perform best inside Poolside’s coding agent. Laguna XS.2 is positioned as a strong model for rapid agentic iteration, especially for developers and teams that need a compact, efficient coding model rather than a heavier frontier system. It is released under an Apache 2.0 license, allowing the community to evaluate, fine-tune, quantize, serve, and build on the weights.

Laguna M.1 is Poolside’s most capable model for agentic coding, built and trained in-house for software development workflows. It is a 225B total-parameter Mixture of Experts model with 23B activated parameters, trained completely in-house on 30T tokens using 6,144 interconnected NVIDIA H200 GPUs. Poolside trained Laguna M.1 from scratch with its own data work, training codebase, and async on-policy reinforcement learning in its agent harness, all with agentic coding in mind. The model is designed to perform at its best inside Poolside’s coding agent, where it can reason through software tasks, interact with tools, edit code, run tests, and support longer autonomous development sessions. Laguna M.1 is built for developers and teams working on complex coding tasks that require stronger reasoning, architectural understanding, terminal use, and multi-step execution than lightweight models can provide.

Qwen3.6 is a large language model developed by Alibaba as part of its Qwen AI model family, designed for real-world applications and advanced reasoning tasks. It focuses on improving stability, usability, and performance compared to earlier versions. The model supports multimodal capabilities, allowing it to process and reason across text, images, and other data types. Qwen3.6 is particularly strong in coding and developer workflows, offering improved accuracy for complex programming tasks. It uses a mixture-of-experts architecture, enabling efficient performance while maintaining large-scale model capabilities. The model is designed to be deployable in production environments, including enterprise and cloud-based systems. It can be integrated into applications or run locally using open-weight variants. Overall, Qwen3.6 delivers a powerful, efficient, and versatile AI solution for modern use cases.

Ling 2.6 is a general-purpose large language model series independently developed and open-sourced by Ant Group, built on a Mixture of Experts architecture and designed for inference efficiency, long context modeling, training technology, and AI Agent collaborative reasoning. Ling’s MoE architecture routes each token to activate only the most relevant expert subnetworks, compressing actual computation to a minimal fraction while maintaining large-scale model capacity. The Ling 2.6 series further advances long-sequence modeling, with Ling-2.6-1T supporting up to a 1M native context window and the official API exposing a 256K context window, while Ling-2.6-flash provides a native 256K context window capable of processing approximately 200,000 characters of long-form input. The models are designed for reliable long-range information retrieval, with no noticeable degradation whether information appears at the beginning, middle, or end of the context.

Ling 2.6 Flash is the latest cost-effective model in the Ling series, built on a Mixture of Experts architecture with 104B total parameters and 7.4B activated parameters. It is designed to achieve an optimal balance between inference performance and compute cost, making it suitable for general-purpose scenarios where strong reasoning capability, high throughput, and efficient deployment matter. Ling’s MoE architecture routes each token to activate only the most relevant expert subnetworks, compressing actual computation to a minimal fraction while maintaining large-scale model capacity. Ling 2.6 Flash provides a native 256K context window and can process approximately 200,000 characters of long-form input, with reliable long-range information retrieval whether key information appears at the beginning, middle, or end of the context. Its aggregate benchmark performance is comparable to or exceeds 40B-class Dense models.

Ring is a trillion-parameter thinking model from Ant Group, designed for real-world Agent workflows. It uses the same Mixture of Experts architecture as Ling, activating about 63B parameters per inference, and focuses on coding agents, tool use, multi-tool collaboration, engineering development, research analysis, and long-horizon task execution. Rather than only pursuing “smarter” results, Ring is built to consistently complete complex tasks at reasonable cost, balancing quality, speed, and execution efficiency in production environments. Ring-2.6-1T introduces an adjustable Reasoning Effort mechanism with high and xhigh reasoning intensity levels, using adaptive reasoning budget allocation based on task complexity. High mode is designed for high-frequency Agent workflows, lower token cost, faster multi-step execution, multi-turn interaction, tool collaboration, and task decomposition.

Grok 4.6 is an upcoming AI model from xAI with 2 trillion parameters expected to continue the Grok model family’s focus on advanced reasoning, coding, agentic workflows, and knowledge work. While xAI has not yet published a full official product page for Grok 4.6, public reporting indicates that Elon Musk confirmed the model is in development. Grok 4.6 is likely to build on the capabilities introduced in Grok 4.5, which xAI describes as its smartest model for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work. The broader Grok platform supports chat, coding, image creation, real-time answers from the web and X, and API access for developers. For businesses and builders, Grok 4.6 may become relevant for software engineering, research, automation, AI agents, and productivity workflows once details are released. Built for users who want access to xAI’s newest frontier models, Grok 4.6 represents the next expected step in the company’s fast-moving AI roadmap.

GPT-5.4 Pro is an advanced AI model developed by OpenAI to deliver high-performance capabilities for professional and complex tasks. It combines improvements in reasoning, coding, and agent-based workflows into a single unified system. The model is designed to work efficiently across professional tools such as spreadsheets, presentations, documents, and development environments. GPT-5.4 Pro also includes native computer-use capabilities, enabling AI agents to interact with software, websites, and operating systems to complete tasks. With support for up to one million tokens of context, it can manage long workflows and large datasets more effectively than previous models. The model also improves tool usage, allowing it to search for and select the right tools during multi-step processes. By delivering more accurate outputs with fewer tokens, GPT-5.4 Pro helps professionals complete complex work faster and more efficiently.

Qwen3.6-Plus is an advanced AI model developed by Alibaba Cloud, designed to power real-world intelligent agents and complex workflows. It introduces significant improvements in agentic coding, enabling developers to handle everything from frontend development to large-scale codebase management. The model features a massive 1 million token context window, allowing it to process and reason over long and complex inputs. It integrates reasoning, memory, and execution capabilities to deliver highly accurate and reliable results. Qwen3.6-Plus also enhances multimodal capabilities, enabling it to understand and analyze images, videos, and documents. The platform is optimized for real-world applications, including automation, planning, and tool-based workflows. Overall, it provides a powerful foundation for building next-generation AI agents and intelligent systems.

Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5-Pro is an advanced open-source AI model designed to handle complex, long-horizon tasks with strong agentic capabilities. It features a Mixture-of-Experts architecture with over one trillion parameters and a large context window of up to one million tokens. The model is built to perform sophisticated reasoning, coding, and problem-solving across extended workflows. It demonstrates high performance on benchmark tests related to software engineering, reasoning, and general intelligence. MiMo-V2.5-Pro can autonomously complete complex projects, such as building full software systems or optimizing engineering designs. It uses hybrid attention mechanisms to balance efficiency and performance across long contexts. The model is also optimized for token efficiency, reducing computational cost while maintaining strong results. By combining scalability, efficiency, and advanced reasoning, MiMo-V2.5-Pro represents a major step forward in open-source AI models.

Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5 is an advanced open-source AI model designed to combine strong agentic capabilities with native multimodal understanding. It can process and reason across text, images, and audio within a single unified system. The model uses a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture with hundreds of billions of parameters for efficient performance. It supports an extended context window of up to one million tokens, enabling long and complex workflows. MiMo-V2.5 is built to handle tasks such as coding, reasoning, and multimodal analysis with high accuracy. It incorporates dedicated visual and audio encoders to enhance perception and cross-modal reasoning. The model demonstrates strong benchmark performance across coding, reasoning, and multimodal tasks. By combining multimodality, efficiency, and agentic intelligence, MiMo-V2.5 advances the capabilities of open-source AI systems.

LongCat-2.0 is a 1.6 trillion total-parameter Mixture-of-Experts language model built on AI ASIC superpods, with about 48 billion parameters activated per token and strong performance across coding and agentic tasks. It is a substantial step up from previous LongCat models, combining large-scale sparse architecture with dedicated post-training for real-world software engineering, tool use, long-context reasoning, and multi-step agent workflows. LongCat-2.0 is trained and deployed entirely on AI ASIC superpods, with pretraining spanning more than 35 trillion tokens and millions of accelerator-hours, demonstrating frontier-scale training on alternative hardware platforms. To strengthen long-horizon tasks, the model introduces LongCat Sparse Attention and is trained on hundreds of billions of tokens of 1M-context data, giving it native support for ultra-long context tasks and reliable long-document understanding.

Seed2.1 Pro is a next-generation AI productivity model built to handle complex, real-world work across general agents, code engineering, and multimodal understanding. It reliably executes multi-step tasks for high-value office work and everyday consultation, including project planning, file processing, research, tool use, spreadsheet analysis, lesson-plan slide generation, and industry report creation across tools and environments. In software development workflows, Seed2.1 Pro strengthens end-to-end delivery by improving requirement understanding, architecture design, coding, debugging, implementation, and validation. Its agent capabilities are designed to make steady progress on difficult tasks and return practical, verifiable results rather than isolated responses. The model also advances knowledge, reasoning, visual understanding, spatial reasoning, and long-context processing, giving agents a stronger foundation for complex decision-making and execution.

Seed2.1 Turbo is a next-generation AI productivity model designed to execute complex real-world tasks with strong general-agent, coding, and multimodal capabilities. It goes beyond one-off answers by carrying multi-step workflows toward defined goals and producing practical, usable outcomes across tools, environments, and interaction modes. For professional work and everyday consultation, it can support project planning, document and file processing, information analysis, solution design, content planning, tool use, and results consolidation. It also handles teaching, office, and research scenarios such as generating lesson-plan slides, analyzing complex spreadsheets, and producing industry reports. In software engineering, Seed2.1 Turbo supports end-to-end delivery across requirement analysis, feature implementation, bug fixing, environment setup, terminal usage, and result validation, while understanding codebase architecture, dependencies, and business logic to coordinate changes.

GPT-5.4 is an advanced artificial intelligence model developed by OpenAI to support complex professional and technical work. The model combines improvements in reasoning, coding, and agent-based workflows into a single system designed for real-world productivity tasks. GPT-5.4 can generate, analyze, and edit documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and other work outputs with greater accuracy and efficiency. It also features improved tool integration, enabling the model to interact with software environments and external tools to complete multi-step workflows. With enhanced context capabilities supporting up to one million tokens, GPT-5.4 can process and reason over very large amounts of information. The model also improves factual accuracy and reduces errors compared to earlier versions. By combining strong reasoning, coding ability, and tool use, GPT-5.4 helps users complete complex tasks faster and with fewer iterations.