"OpenClaw arrived on the internet last month like a weather system. Within days of its release under an MIT licence, it had been downloaded millions of times, dissected in thousands of tutorials, and endorsed by Jensen Huang as "definitely the next ChatGPT." Its appeal is simple: it is a free, locally running AI agent that can browse the web, write code, manage files, and execute multi-step tasks on your computer without sending everything to a cloud server."
"Through My Computer, the agent can read, analyse, and edit local files, launch and control applications, and execute multi-step tasks, including coding tasks, without the user having to upload anything to a server. Manus's previous iteration operated largely in the cloud: you gave it a task, it worked on a remote server, and it returned results."
"My Computer is an attempt to close both gaps, while maintaining what Manus says is a more polished and capable agent underneath. Manus's previous cloud-based model has real advantages in terms of compute and consistency, but it has one significant disadvantage relative to OpenClaw: it is not free, and it does not sit on your machine."
Meta's acquired AI startup Manus released My Computer, a desktop application available for macOS and Windows that brings AI agent capabilities directly to users' devices. The agent can read, analyze, and edit local files, launch applications, and execute multi-step tasks including coding without uploading data to servers. This launch directly competes with OpenClaw, an open-source tool that gained rapid popularity after its recent release. OpenClaw's appeal stems from being free, locally-running, and capable of browsing the web, writing code, managing files, and executing tasks without cloud dependency. Manus's previous cloud-based model offered computational advantages but lacked the accessibility and cost-effectiveness of local alternatives. My Computer aims to bridge this gap by providing a free, locally-operated agent while maintaining superior polish and capability.
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