# Andrew Ng Releases an MIT-Licensed Desktop Agent That Runs Against Local Models

OpenWorker returns finished documents, calendar changes and Slack replies instead of chat, and runs on a user's own application programming interface (API) key or a fully local Ollama installation.

- Published: 2026-08-05T05:32:18.568Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-08-05/andrew-ng-releases-an-mit-licensed-desktop-agent-that-runs-a
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: tech
- Sources: [Polylog editors](https://polylog.news), [GitHub](https://github.com/andrewyng/openworker), [MarkTechPost](https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/07/23/andrew-ng-just-released-openworker-an-open-source-local-first-desktop-ai-coworker-that-returns-finished-deliverables-instead-of-chat/)

Andrew Ng, the founder of DeepLearning.AI and a co-founder of Coursera, has published OpenWorker, an open-source desktop agent released under the MIT license. The Russian-language channel AI ML Big Data described it as an open alternative t…

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