Qwen-UI-Agent: open-weights agents that drive your phone and PC

Alibaba's Tongyi lab open-sources a GUI-agent family from 2B to 235B, Apache 2.0 — plus Autolith's live-runtime agent and A2A joins the Linux Foundation.

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  • A computer-use agent you can actually download

    Tongyi-MAI released Qwen-UI-Agent (the MAI-UI family) as open weights in four sizes — 2B, 8B, 32B and 235B-A22B, all Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face. It acts from raw screen pixels, so it can drive apps that expose no API at all.

  • Build this weekend: a phone-driving agent on one GPU

    The 2B and 8B checkpoints run on a single consumer GPU via vLLM behind an OpenAI-compatible endpoint — enough to script an agent that fills forms, books, or navigates any Android app by tapping the UI. No device farm or vendor API required.

  • The leaderboard receipts — on the authors' evals

    Qwen-UI-Agent tops ScreenSpot-Pro grounding at every size (67.9% at 32B, 65.7% at 8B), and the 235B takes #1 on AndroidWorld at 76.7% with a claimed new MobileWorld record. These are the team's own numbers, so benchmark on your own workflow before betting on it.

  • Elsewhere: Autolith gives a coding agent a live Lisp runtime

    Autolith 0.35 (open source, Nix-installable) is a terminal coding agent that lives inside an SBCL image it can inspect, patch and crash-recover mid-task, and it processes corpora larger than the context window. Bring your own provider — Codex, Anthropic, Grok or Fireworks.

  • Elsewhere: A2A moves in with MCP under one foundation

    Google donated its Agent2Agent protocol to the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation, which now houses A2A alongside Anthropic's MCP across 250+ members. That means fewer competing wire formats for your agents to speak, under neutral governance.