Manus Just Turned Your Desktop Into an AI Powered Workstation
The new My Computer feature lets Manus access your local files, terminal, and GPU directly from a desktop app.
Manus has been a cloud-first AI agent since its launch in March 2025. You give it a task, it opens a sandboxed environment, browses the web, writes code, and delivers results. But there was one big limitation—it could not touch your local machine.
That changes today.
Manus released My Computer, the core feature of a new Desktop app that gives the agent direct access to your files, terminal, applications, and hardware. It is available now on macOS and Windows.
This is the first major product release since Meta acquired Manus for roughly $2 billion in late 2025.
What Is My Computer?
My Computer is a feature inside the new Manus Desktop app. It extends Manus from a cloud-only agent into one that can operate directly on your local machine.
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