Open-source Atomic Agent beats Hermes on GAIA with 69.8% accuracy
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-07-23
An open-source local agent claims to beat Hermes on GAIA with a cheaper loop
The post says Atomic Agent is the first open-source local agent to surpass Hermes on the GAIA benchmark.
Key details:
- Both agents ran on the same Qwen 3.6 35B setup, with the same task budget.
- Atomic Agent solved 37/53 tasks (69.8%), versus 31/53 (58.5%) for Hermes.
- It was also faster, averaging about 217 seconds per task vs 351 seconds.
- The difference, the author argues, was the agent loop, not model size.
Under the hood, Atomic Agent returns a grammar-checked JSON array of tool calls, runs reads in parallel, summarizes results, and reuses cached prompts. A custom TurboQuant build of llama.cpp reportedly cuts KV cache memory by up to 6.4× and adds 30–50% decoding speed.
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