not much happened today

**Gemma 4** was launched by **Google** under an **Apache 2.0 license**, marking a significant open-model release focused on **reasoning, agentic workflows, multimodality, and on-device use**. It outperforms models 10x larger and has immediate ecosystem support including **vLLM**, **llama.cpp**, **Ollama**, **Intel hardware**, **Unsloth**, and **Hugging Face Inference Endpoints**. Local inference benchmarks showed strong performance on consumer hardware, including RTX 4090 and Mac mini M4. Early benchmarking praised its efficiency and ranking improvements over previous versions. Meanwhile, **Hermes Agent** emerged as a popular open-source agent harness, noted for stability and capability on long tasks, with users switching from OpenClaw to Hermes.