OpenCUA: Open Foundations for Computer-Use Agents
Vision-language models have demonstrated impressive capabilities as computer-use agents (CUAs) capable of automating diverse computer tasks. As their commercial potential grows, critical details of the most capable CUA systems remain closed. As these agents will increasingly mediate digital interactions and execute consequential decisions on our behalf, the research community needs access to open CUA frameworks to study their capabilities, limitations, and risks. To bridge this gap, we propose OpenCUA, a comprehensive open-source framework for scaling CUA data and foundation models. Our framework consists of: (1) an annotation infrastructure that seamlessly captures human computer-use demonstrations; (2) AgentNet, the first large-scale computer-use task dataset spanning 3 operating systems and 200+ applications and websites; (3) a scalable pipeline that transforms demonstrations into state-action pairs with reflective long Chain-of-Thought reasoning that sustain robust performance gains as data scales. Our end-to-end agent models demonstrate strong performance across CUA benchmarks. In particular, OpenCUA-32B achieves an average success rate of 34.8% on OSWorld-Verified, establishing a new state-of-the-art (SOTA) among open-source models and surpassing OpenAI CUA (GPT-4o). Further analysis confirms that our approach generalizes well across domains and benefits significantly from increased test-time computation. We release our annotation tool, datasets, code, and models to build open foundations for further CUA research.
@article{wang2025opencua,
title = {OpenCUA: Open Foundations for Computer-Use Agents},
author = {Wang, Xinyuan and Wang, Bowen and Lu, Dunjie and Yang, Junlin and Xie, Tianbao and Wang, Junli and Deng, Jiaqi and Guo, Xiaole and Xu, Yiheng and Wu, Chen Henry and Shen, Zhennan and Li, Zhuokai and Li, Ryan and Li, Xiaochuan and Chen, Junda and Zheng, Boyuan and Li, Peihang and Lei, Fangyu and Cao, Ruisheng and Fu, Yeqiao and Shin, Dongchan and Shin, Martin and Hu, Jiarui and Wang, Yuyan and Chen, Jixuan and Ye, Yuxiao and Zhang, Danyang and Du, Dikang and Hu, Hao and Chen, Huarong and Zhou, Zaida and Yao, Haotian and Chen, Ziwei and Gu, Qizheng and Wang, Yipu and Wang, Heng and Yang, Diyi and Zhong, Victor and Sung, Flood and Charles, Y. and Yang, Zhilin and Yu, Tao},
journal = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
year = {2025},
eprint = {2508.09123},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09123},
note = {NeurIPS 2025 Spotlight; Best Paper Award, COLM 2025 AIA Workshop}
}