# Cua — Build Your Own Operator on macOS - Part 1

- Company: Cua (cua.ai)
- Announced: 2025-03-31
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://cua.ai/blog/build-your-own-operator-on-macos-1
- Record: https://forck.live/items/16846-build-your-own-operator-on-macos-part-1
- Subject: Cua Driver / Lume / Cua Bench / Cua Fleets
- Models affected: computer-use-preview

Cua published a tutorial on building a computer-use operator on macOS using OpenAI's computer-use-preview model and the Responses API. The guide covers setting up a macOS virtual machine, connecting the model to it, and implementing a basic interaction loop. The computer-use-preview model is currently limited to OpenAI tier 3+ users and the Responses API.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://cua.ai/blog/build-your-own-operator-on-macos-1:

> In this first blogpost, we'll learn how to build our own Computer-Use Operator using OpenAI's computer-use-preview model.

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