A Thesys benchmark of 46 interface briefs across six models found that OpenUI used 58% fewer output tokens than Vercel's json-render and 52% fewer than Google's A2UI. The release follows the shift toward 'Intelligent UI' pioneered by ChatGPT, which replaces long paragraphs with interactive charts and tables. The framework's early open-source preview recorded more than 6 million downloads and 10,000 GitHub stars over six months.
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Thesys Launches OpenUI 1.0 to Open Source AI Interface Generation
AI5 days ago
Interactive visual elements can now be generated by artificial intelligence agents to replace standard text-based chat responses. Thesys has released a toolkit called OpenUI 1.0 that enables AI to write a compact language that renders functioning interfaces on screen in real time. This latest version introduces custom actions, allowing buttons within a generated answer to trigger an application's native code across any model, including open-weight versions running on private hardware.
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