Open-source agent beats Hermes on GAIA with the same local Qwen-3.6-35B setup
SucceededMind · x · 2026-07-25
Orchestration, not bigger weights, appears to be the lever that matters here.
The post cites a benchmark run where Atomic Agent and Hermes Agent were tested on 53 GAIA Level 1 tasks with the same local setup: a 4-bit Qwen-3.6-35B model on an M4 Max.
- Atomic Agent: 69.8% solved in 3h 12m
- Hermes Agent: 58.5% solved in 5h 10m
That means Atomic solved 6 more tasks and finished almost two hours faster.
The claimed reason is a stricter agent loop that avoids wasting compute: it reuses the KV cache with a byte-stable prompt, batches tool calls as JSON, and compresses results instead of stuffing raw logs into context.
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