computer use

Nex AGI released Nex-N2.6 on Nov 10, 2026, an agentic model built on GLM-5.3-Flash with about 321B parameters and a 262K-token context window. OpenRouter lists it at $0.12 per 1M input tokens and $0.40 per 1M output tokens, labeled 20% off.

Tencent's Hy4 adds vision and computer use and is positioned in the top tier of open-weight models. On a WorkBuddy-focused evaluation it posts an average quality score of 83.18 and a 96.15% pass rate, and it ranked first among open-weight models in a blind finance evaluation by 213 experts.

Microsoft has published Mage-VL-Cowork on Hugging Face, a 4B-parameter vision-language policy that combines GUI control and code/terminal execution in one checkpoint. According to the model card, it reaches 66.0% on OSWorld-Verified under a 50-step budget, the best among 4B models. It is released under Apache-2.0.

On October 28, ByteDance's Doubao Work added demonstration-based skill recording and a setting that keeps tasks running on a locked Mac. Tencent's WorkBuddy launched a remote control mode that shows a live view of the desktop on the user's phone.

OpenAI has released GPT-6.1 Terra, priced at $1 per 1M input tokens and $5 per 1M output tokens. The company describes it as a fast, efficient model built for computer use at scale, with detailed visual reasoning and clearer, more natural writing.

Anthropic's Python SDK v1.12.0, dated 2026-10-07, adds the claude-haiku-5-5 model identifier and typed tool calls for the computer and browser toolsets. It also adds lifecycle fields to /v1/models and several admin API changes. The release notes give no pricing, context window, or benchmark data for the new model.

Every user of Meta's Muse agent gets a free, full-featured cloud computer running Ubuntu Linux, according to Meta Superintelligence Labs VP David Singleton. The app has drawn over 500,000 users in its first week and hit #1 on the Apple App Store.

Anthropic has enabled background computer use for Claude Code and Claude Cowork on macOS, available to Pro and Max subscribers. The feature lets Claude click, type, and open apps on a Mac without taking over the user's active cursor, following a similar launch by OpenAI's ChatGPT earlier in 2026.

Anthropic released v0.124.0 of its Python SDK, graduating the Files and Skills APIs to general availability and introducing new computer use and browser use toolsets. The release is available now on GitHub.

Microsoft Research has released Fara-7B, a 7-billion parameter small language model designed for computer automation tasks. The model, which took 2.5 days to train on 64 H100 GPUs, can navigate websites to complete tasks like booking restaurants and shopping, using screenshots as input with a 128K token context window.