Jeffrey Quesnelle, CEO of Nous Research, unveiled a novel written entirely by an AI agent at the NVIDIA GTC event. The AI, named Hermes Agent, autonomously crafted "The Second Son of the House of Bells," a 79,456-word novel in 19 chapters. Quesnelle distributed printed copies at the event, highlighting his ambition to create an AI capable of storytelling. The novel's creation involved a four-phase process: generating foundational elements like worldview and characters, drafting chapters with quality scoring, conducting adversarial revisions, and final reviews by Claude Opus. This method draws from Andrej Karpathy’s "revise-evaluate-retain/discard" cycle, adapted for novel writing. Karpathy praised the approach, noting its potential for excellent results if executed carefully. Nous Research is recognized for its Hermes models and the YaRN context extension method.