Hugging Face releases a free Operator-like agentic AI tool

A team at Hugging Face has released a freely available, cloud-hosted computer-using AI “agent.” But be forewarned: It’s quite sluggish and occasionally makes mistakes. Hugging Face’s agent, called Open Computer Agent, is accessible via the web and can use a Linux virtual machine preloaded with several applications, including Firefox. Open Computer Agent also often runs into CAPTCHA tests that it’s unable to solve. Rather, they wanted to demonstrate that open AI models are becoming more capable — and cheaper to run on cloud infrastructure. Markets and Markets projects that the AI agent segment will grow from $7.84 billion in 2025 to $52.62 billion by 2030.