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AI · January 23, 2025

Open Computer Use

Hi everyone, I'm Vasek (https://x.com/mlejva), the CEO of the company behind this - https://e2b.dev. The company is called E2B. We're an open-source (https://github.com/e2b-dev) devtool that makes it easy to run untrusted AI-generated code in our secure sandboxes. You can think of us as coding runtime for LLMs. You can self host us on GCP (https://github.com/e2b-dev/infra/blob/main/self-host.md) and we're working on AWS, then Azure, and any Linux machine. This repo is one of our open-source projects that we're…

Open Computer Use launched on January 23, 2025 with 9 votes, #2,006 of 6,142 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.

What it does

AI computer use powered by open source LLMs and E2B Desktop Sandbox - e2b-dev/open-computer-use

A secure cloud Linux computer powered by E2B Desktop Sandbox and controlled by open-source LLMs. Open Computer Use is designed to make it easy to swap in and out new LLMs. The LLMs used by the agent are specified in config.py like this: grounding_model = providers.OSAtlasProvider() vision_model = providers.GroqProvider("llama3.2") action_model = providers.GroqProvider("llama3.3") The providers are imported from providers.py and include: If you add a new model or provider, please make a PR to this repository with the updated providers.py! brew install poetry ffmpeg 2. Clone the repository In your terminal: git clone https://github.com/e2b-dev/open-computer-use/ 3. Set the environment…from github.com

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hi everyone, I'm Vasek (https://x.com/mlejva), the CEO of the company behind this - https://e2b.dev. The company is called E2B. We're an open-source (https://github.com/e2b-dev) devtool that makes it easy to run untrusted AI-generated code in our secure sandboxes. You can think…

Pricing, as stated on its site

Free — Open Computer Use is an open-source project hosted on GitHub with no pricing mentioned. It is freely available as an open-source tool for running AI-generated code in secure sandboxes, with self-hosti

checked September 2026 · prices change

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