Show HN: State of the Art Open-source alternative to ChatGPT Agents for browsing

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Meka Agent Meka Agent is an open-source, autonomous computer-using agent that delivers state-of-the-art browsing capabilities. The agent works and acts in the same way humans do, by purely using vision as its eyes and acting within a full computer context. It is designed as a simple, extensible, and customizable framework, allowing flexibility in the choice of models, tools, and infrastructure providers. Benchmarks The agent primarily focuses on web browsing today, and achieves state-of-the-art benchmark results in the WebArena Benchmark (72.7%). Read more about the details of the benchmark results. Meka App If you would like to get started with browser automations without any setup, visit the Meka App to try the Meka Agent with $10 in free credits. Getting Started To get started with Meka, we packaged various providers that we have extensively tested. There are two main pieces: A vision model that has good visual grounding . From our experimentation, OpenAI o3, Claude Sonnet 4, and Claude Opus 4 are the best US-based models. We have not experimented with Chinese-based models but would love to see contributions! . From our experimentation, OpenAI o3, Claude Sonnet 4, and Claude Opus 4 are the best US-based models. We have not experimented with Chinese-based models but would love to see contributions! An infrastructure provider that exposes OS-level controls, not just a browser layer with Playwright screenshots. This is important for performance as a number of common web elements are rendered at the system level, invisible to the browser page. (Examples include dropdown menus, browser alerts, file uploads, and more) To get started, we choose OpenAI o3 as the model and Anchor Browser as the VM-based infrastructure provider. We are open to submissions by other infra providers with OS-level controls! Install the main components of the SDK npm install @trymeka/core @trymeka/ai-provider-vercel @ai-sdk/openai @trymeka/computer-provider-anchor-browser playwright-core Create...

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