Cua

Cua provides cloud desktops for AI agents, enabling agents to run operating systems in the cloud. It targets environments built for code and AI-model interactions, offering OS sandboxes and live GUI sessions. The platform positions itself as a universal cloud desktop solution for agents to operate across multiple OSes.

Cua offers cloud sandboxes that run macOS, Windows, Linux, and Android, with prebuilt images designed for computer-use agents. Users can boot a cloud desktop, open a live GUI session via VNC, and control input like mouse and keyboard. The workflow includes provisioning, snapshotting environments, forking into parallel runs, and running workloads inside sandboxed OS images. It supports configuring environments with dependencies, saving snapshots, and forking into multiple clones to scale agent experiments.

Who it’s for: AI agent developers and teams building agent-driven applications who need cloud-based desktop environments and OS-level sandboxes for experimentation, testing, and running agent workflows.

Customers: Hugging Face, Datadog, Meta, Elastic, Apple, Red Hat, NVIDIA, Duolingo

Open source availability, presence of pricing page, mentions of sign-up and live demos; collaboration with large tech companies suggests traction and ongoing development.