“We believe in intelligence as a public good before everything else.” Here’s my new episode with @karan4d, who co-founded @NousResearch and helped build Hermes, the #1 personal agent and AI app on OpenRouter. Karan is the most down-to-earth AI founder I've interviewed. We had a great chat about: → Why open-source AI must win → How Hermes improves itself without slop → How to mod your favorite games with AI Some quotes from Karan: “We need to keep giving this level of intelligence to…