OpenCUA brings open source computer-use agents to take on OpenAI
Researchers at The University of Hong Kong just launched OpenCUA, an open source framework designed to train AI agents that control computers across Windows, macOS, and Ubuntu. Powered by 22,600+ screen-recorded task demonstrations and chain-of-thought reasoning, it matches proprietary models from Anthropic and OpenAI. Why it matters: It finally gives the research community an open recipe to study and build general-purpose desktop agents.