# Hugging Face — CUGA on Hugging Face: Democratizing Configurable AI Agents

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2025-12-15T16:01:04+00:00
- Category: open-weight-release
- Subject: Platform
- Open weights: yes
- Models affected: gpt-oss-120b, Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct-fp8
- License: Apache 2.0
- Pricing: open models are ~80-90% cheaper than closed alternatives
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/ibm-research/cuga-on-hugging-face
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1571-cuga-on-hugging-face-democratizing-configurable-ai-agents

Hugging Face and IBM Research announce the open-source release of CUGA, a configurable generalist AI agent, under Apache 2.0 license. The post highlights CUGA's state-of-the-art benchmark performance, its architectural patterns, and its integration with Hugging Face Spaces and Langflow. The agent supports open models and runs on Groq's LPUs for fast inference.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/ibm-research/cuga-on-hugging-face:

> CUGA is fully open source, under the Apache 2.0 license

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