Overview
Cua (Cua AI, Inc.) is a San Francisco-based open-source company building computer-use agent infrastructure — desktop automation drivers, cloud desktop fleets (Cua Fleets), local macOS VMs (Lume), benchmarks, and specialist decision models.
Founded 2025 by Francesco Bonacci (ex-Microsoft AI, Windows Agent Arena co-author) after Y Combinator Spring 2025 batch.
Recent Developments
- 2026-09-18/19: Open-sourced cua-s1-forms — first System One model in CUA-S1 family; 706K parameters, MIT license, Hugging Face weights (2026-09-19-cua-s1-computer-use-model, 2026-09-19-cua-s1-huggingface-model-card)
- Main GitHub repo ~23,300 stars as of Sep 19, 2026 (2026-09-19-cua-s1-runtimewire)
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- computer-use
- system-one-models
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