#796: Own Your Intelligence Stack with Tommy Eastman

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast · Sep 28, 2026 · 1h 4m · transcript

Tommy Eastman of Nous Research joins Marty to break down Hermes Agent and why owning your intelligence stack matters. They cover the leap from chatbots to autonomous agentic AI, self-improving memory, and model-agnostic harnesses that kill vendor lock-in. Tommy explains how open source models now handle most enterprise work at a fraction of frontier lab costs, why feeding company IP to OpenAI and Anthropic is a fiduciary risk, the GPU compute squeeze, trusted execution environments, and why Big AI lobbying against open source is disingenuous.

Tommy on X: https://x.com/yeahfortommy

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