Hermes 4 405B hit 96.3% on MATH-500 when it launched on August 26, 2025. That number got copy-pasted into every coverage headline within 24 hours. Most of those headlines missed the actual story. I've been running Hermes 4 on OpenRouter at $1/M input and $3/M output since the launch week, and I've had the 14B running locally on Apache 2.0. The benchmark framing bothered me from the start — not bec