OpenAGI emerges from stealth with an AI agent that it claims crushes OpenAI and Anthropic

A stealth artificial intelligence startup founded by an MIT researcher emerged this morning with an ambitious claim: its new AI model can control computers better than systems built by OpenAI and Anthropic — at a fraction of the cost.

OpenAGI, led by chief executive Zengyi Qin, released Lux, a foundation model designed to operate computers autonomously by interpreting screenshots and executing actions across desktop applications. The San Francisco-based company says Lux achieves an 83.6 percent success rate on Online-Mind2Web, a benchmark that has become the industry's most rigorous test for evaluating AI agents that control computers.

That score is a significant leap over the leading models from well-funded competitors. OpenAI's Operator, released in January, scores 61.3 percent on the same benchmark. Anthropic's Claude Computer Use achieves 56.3 percent.

"Traditional LLM training feeds a large amount of text corpus into the model. The model learns to ...