A team at Hugging Face has released a free, cloud-host-computer-used AI “agent”. But be warned: It’s pretty slow and sometimes makes mistakes.

Hugging Face’s agent, called Open computer agentis accessible via the web and can use a Linux virtual machine that is pre -loaded with various applications, including Firefox. Similar to Openai’s operator, you can ask a computer agent to complete a task – say: “Use Google Maps to find the Hugging Face HQ in Paris” – and put back while the agent opens the necessary programs and finds out the necessary steps.

Open computer agent can handle simple requests well enough. But more complicated people, such as looking for flights, went up in TechCrunch’s testing. Open computer agent also often performs CAPTCHA tests that cannot solve it.

You should also wait in a virtual rope to use an open computer agent – a rope second to minutes long, depending on the demand.

Of course, the goal of the embracing facial team was not to build a modern computer use agent. On the contrary, they wanted to demonstrate that open AI models are becoming more competent – and cheaper to work on cloud infrastructure.

“As Vision models become more competent, they can apply complicated agent flow,” said Ayricer Roucher, a member of the Agent’s Team at Hugging Face, wrote in a message on X. “(Some of these models) support built -in eargver, ie (the) ability to detect any element in an image through its coordinates, (and) can (can) click on any item (in a virtual machine).”

Although far from perfect, agent technology attracts increasing investments, as businesses want to assume it to increase productivity. According to a recent KPMG recording65% of companies experiment with AI agents. Markets and Markets Projects That the AI ​​agent segment will grow from $ 7.84 billion by 2030 to $ 52.62 billion.