What we're building at Cua.

Product updates, benchmarks, and practical guides from the team.

August 11, 2026Francesco Bonacci and Johnny Franks

Apple Silicon and macOS VMs: 11–16× Faster LLM Inference with llama.cpp

A process-scoped Metal capability shim unlocks newer GPU paths inside a Lume macOS VM, making llama.cpp prompt processing up to 11× faster and token generation up to 16× faster on an M1 Ultra.

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August 6, 2026Francesco Bonacci

Blending the best of computer and browser use, without a Chrome extension

Cua Driver connects an exact Chromium tab to its native process and window, giving agents page-aware browser actions and full desktop control in the same session—without a Chrome extension.

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July 13, 2026Francesco Bonacci

Computer-Use 2.0 at AI Engineer World's Fair

Computer-use is becoming a tool inside coding agents. Our AI Engineer World's Fair session traces that shift through Cua Driver, Cua-Bench, and Cua Fleets—from interaction to evaluation to scale.

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June 24, 2026Dillon DuPont

Evaluating Gemini 3.5 Flash on Computer-Use with Cua-Bench

We had early access from Google DeepMind to Gemini 3.5 Flash's native Computer Use tool and ran it on Cua-Bench's KiCad EDA suite. It posted the highest mean reward of any frontier model we tested - 0.267 - at Flash speed and cost, with pixel-accurate grounding and real analog-design reasoning.

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June 18, 2026Robert Wendt

Inside Linux computer-use: AT-SPI, XTEST, and background agents

Cua Driver now drives real Linux desktop apps in the background for any agent. It uses AT-SPI 2 over D-Bus for the accessibility tree, XTEST for input synthesis, and a painted agent cursor kept separate from your physical pointer, on X11 and XWayland.

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May 27, 2026Francesco Bonacci

Inside Windows computer-use: synthetic cursors for background agents

Cua Driver now runs Windows apps in the background for any agent loop. One driver across Win32, WPF, WinUI, UWP, Electron, and legacy controls, handing the model window pixels, accessibility trees, and an action layer.

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April 23, 2026Francesco Bonacci

Inside macOS window internals: how SkyLight enables multi-cursor background agents

An open-source macOS driver that lets any agent drive Mac apps in the background, without moving your cursor or stealing focus. A look at the SkyLight internals that make it work.

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February 6, 2026Francesco Bonacci

Announcing the First Multi-Player Computer-Use — Live from ClawCon

CuaBot brings multi-player computer-use to any coding agent. Run sandboxed Linux desktops with agent and human cursors coexisting on the same screen.

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January 28, 2026Francesco Bonacci

A Story of Computer-Use: Where We Started, Where We're Headed

From OpenAI Universe in 2016 to Clawdbot's virality - the timeline of computer-use agents converging now.

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November 28, 2025Sarina Li

NeurIPS 2025: Computer-Use Agent Papers You Should Know About

A roundup of the most exciting computer-use agent research presented at NeurIPS 2025.

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November 22, 2025Sarina Li

Computer-Use Agents for Growth Hacking

How the Cua team uses computer-use agents for growth hacking at Toronto Devfest, a preview for future events!

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November 20, 2025Dillon DuPont

Cua Playground: Agents + Sandboxes in Your Browser

Try computer-use agents and cloud sandboxes directly in your browser with Cua Playground.

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November 19, 2025Francesco Bonacci

Cua VLM Router: One Provider for All Your Computer-Use Models

Easily switch between different computer-use model providers with the new Cua VLM Router.

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November 18, 2025Dillon DuPont

Introducing the Cua CLI: Manage Cloud Sandboxes from Your Terminal

Manage Cua Cloud resources directly from your terminal with the new Cua CLI.

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November 17, 2025Francesco Bonacci

Cloud Windows Sandboxes GA + macOS Preview

Announcing general availability of Cloud Windows Sandboxes and preview of macOS Sandboxes on Cua Cloud.

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September 25, 2025Francesco Bonacci

What happens when hackathon judging is a public benchmark (Hack the North edition)

The Cua team sponsors Hack the North and we're excited to share our experience with hackathon judging.

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August 29, 2025Francesco Bonacci

When Agents Need Human Wisdom - Introducing Human-In-The-Loop Support

Sometimes the best AI agent is a human.

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August 28, 2025Dillon DuPont

Cua × HUD - Evaluate Any Computer-Use Agent

Benchmark GUI-capable agents on hundreds of Computer Use tasks with ComputerAgent and HUD integration.

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August 27, 2025Dillon DuPont

Agent Framework 0.4 with Composite Agents: Two Brains Are Better Than One

Announcing Cua Agent framework 0.4 and Composite Agents

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August 26, 2025Francesco Bonacci

Ubuntu Docker Support in Cua with Kasm

Today we're shipping Ubuntu Docker support in Cua. It gives you a full Linux desktop inside a Docker container, viewable in your browser—no VM spin-up, no extra clients. Works the same on macOS, Windows, and Linux.

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August 25, 2025Francesco Bonacci

Computer-Use Agents SOTA Challenge: Hack the North + Global Online

Two-track competition for SOTA Computer-Use Agents: on-site Hack the North participants compete via OSWorld benchmark, while global participants build with Cua + Ollama.

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August 5, 2025Morgan Dean

Bringing Computer-Use to the Web

Build computer-use agents with JavaScript and TypeScript using OpenAI's computer-use-preview model and the @trycua/computer library. Perfect for web developers wanting to automate tasks in cloud containers.

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June 23, 2025Dillon DuPont

Sandboxed Python Execution: Run Code Safely in Cua Containers

Learn how to use the @sandboxed decorator to execute Python functions safely in isolated virtual environments within Cua containers.

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June 18, 2025Dillon DuPont

Your Windows PC is Already the Perfect Development Environment for Computer-Use Agents

Windows Sandbox is a lightweight, disposable virtual machine built into every Windows PC - perfect for safely testing computer-use agents.

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June 10, 2025Francesco Bonacci

From Lume to Containerization: Our Journey Meets Apple's Vision

Apple's Containerization framework announcement confirms we're on the right path. Here's what we're looking forward to.

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May 31, 2025Dillon DuPont

App-Use: Control Individual Applications with Cua Agents

Create focused Computer sessions limited to specific apps. Enable single-agent focus on iPhone automation or run multiple agents in parallel controlling different applications.

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May 28, 2025Francesco Bonacci

Introducing Cua Cloud Containers: Computer-Use Agents in the Cloud

Deploy Computer-Use Agents at scale with Cua Cloud Containers. Launch pre-configured cloud environments with all agent frameworks ready to go.

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May 13, 2025Dillon DuPont

Trajectory Viewer for cua

Explore, debug, and analyze your agent's actions with the cua Trajectory Viewer tool. Step through every observation and action in your browser!

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May 1, 2025Dillon DuPont

Training Computer-Use Models: Creating Human Trajectories with Cua

Upload your own computer interactions as high-quality training data. Learn to use CUA's Gradio UI to create human trajectories and share them on Hugging Face.

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April 19, 2025Francesco Bonacci

Build Your Own Operator on macOS - Part 2

Explore the cua-agent framework for building Computer-Use Agents with multiple model providers and a simplified API.

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March 31, 2025Francesco Bonacci

Build Your Own Operator on macOS - Part 1

Learn how to build your own Operator on macOS. This is a step by step guide to help you get started.

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