@GoSailGlobal: ByteDance quietly open-sourced the GUI Agent route, and it's more solid than imagined. UI-TARS-desktop (GitHub 29.4k) packs two things in one repo: · Agent TARS: A general multimodal Agent framework, one-click CLI launch, can run in the terminal…

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ByteDance open-sourced the UI-TARS-desktop project, containing a general multimodal Agent framework Agent TARS and a local GUI Agent UI-TARS Desktop, supporting real-world tasks in terminal/browser, based on UI-TARS vision model and Seed-1.5-VL, under Apache 2.0 license.

ByteDance quietly open-sourced the GUI Agent route, and it's more solid than imagined. UI-TARS-desktop (GitHub 29.4k) packs two things in one repo: · Agent TARS: A general multimodal Agent framework, one-click CLI launch, can run real tasks in terminal / browser / computer (book flights, hotels, draw pictures all demonstrated) · UI-TARS Desktop: Local GUI Agent, sees the screen, clicks mouse, types keyboard, all runs locally, no uploads Apache 2.0, native MCP support, backed by ByteDance's own UI-TARS vision model + Seed-1.5-VL The most complete domestic open-source Computer Use route so far https://github.com/bytedance/UI-TARS-desktop…
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📑 Paper | 🤗 Hugging Face Models | 🫨 Discord | 🤖 ModelScope 🖥️ Desktop Application | 👓 Midscene (use in browser)

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