# Andrew Ng Releases an MIT-Licensed Desktop Agent That Runs on Your Own Keys

OpenWorker returns finished documents, triaged inboxes and updated calendars from a local runtime with more than 25 connectors and support for any Model Context Protocol server.

- Published: 2026-08-05T05:48:38.661Z
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Andrew Ng, the founder of DeepLearning.AI and a former head of Google Brain, has released OpenWorker under an MIT license. The Russian-language channel AI ML Big Data described it as an open alternative to commercial agent products that tak…

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