Tencent now has a cloud agent too. It's called LightVela.
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Cue from Manus is free for a limited time right now.
It's Manus's cloud agent product. No free tier normally, plans start at $20/mo for Pro, but access is free during the promo. Invite code: 4BSCU. Cue feels like grok-bot's playbook. Multi-agent with data isolation, and each agent even gets its own computer. You can group agents. Every agent ships with one free computer. More costs extra. The specs are decent, 8 cores and 15GB RAM. The catch is auto-sleep, so you still need the platform's native scheduled task to keep it alive. Works in the Cue app, and you can also hook it up to iMessage, Telegram, LINE, or Slack.

freebuff, and the models are actually free.
There are more no-cost LLM sites than ever. freebuff's model is simple: text ads pay for inference, you pay nothing. No subscription, no credit card, not even an API key. Billing isn't per token either, it's per one-hour session. Each model has a session price, and once you're in you can send as many messages as you want that hour. Way nicer than watching a token counter tick down. The free tier gives you 25 Freebucks a day, about $0.25, and it resets the next day instead of rolling over. Same budget, wildly different runtime depending on the model you pick: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is roughly 1 hour a day per the official numbers, and Solar Mini 4 and Solar Pro 4 are listed as unlimited for now. The caveats, because there are some. Outside supported regions, or if they detect VPN/proxy, your daily budget drops to 20 Freebucks and the model list shrinks too. The ToS says your data may be used for training. Under heavy load some models might serve you a quantized version. It's also still beta, so prices and quotas move every few weeks, and their own fine print says sessions can get paused for "fair use" even while a free account still has balance. 🔗 https://freebuff.com/?ref=ref-b22b7bc3-a5cb-4e7c-8446-995e9d6c6dfe

I stuffed an agent into an Android phone.
You've probably run into those short videos lately where an agent drives a phone around by itself. This one is called Mika, and it's a free open-source project. It's an Android app that works in the background through accessibility mode, so it can use pretty much any other app you have installed. Reply to someone on WeChat, scroll Xiaohongshu, drop something in a cart and check out. It finds the buttons by looking at the screen. There's no API to wire up, and it doesn't care what resolution your phone is. When it reaches a payment step or a captcha it stops and lets you finish. 🔗 github.com/wangzan101/Mika

My product went profitable, and something in me broke.
Someone on Xiaohongshu posted a while back that she sells phone keyboard skins she made with Codex. Eight, ten yuan a pack. Over a thousand a month. I've been at mine for months. October: a few hundred copies, $1,200 gross. Platform fee 30%, tax 10%, so 60% should have landed. It came to just over a thousand dollars. I still don't know how the math pulled that off. I have an overseas bank account. Once lost $500 to a wire transfer off one. I'd still tell you to take payout through WorldFirst: less hassle, lower fees. You can also get a Hong Kong USD credit card tied to it that spends your WorldFirst balance directly. Digital card is free. Physical is $4. Mainland purchases under ¥200 skip the processing fee, and right now there's 1% cashback.
