Meta’s Manus desktop app, developed from its December 2025 acquisition of AI agent startup Manus, launched in mid-March 2026 for macOS and Windows with a feature called “My Computer” that lets users manage files and automate tasks locally. The launch coincided with OpenAI’s announced plans for a unified macOS desktop “super app” combining ChatGPT, Codex, and the Atlas browser. Manus’s core feature facilitates local file organization and app automation without routing everything through cloud services, giving it broader reach than OpenAI’s historically macOS-first desktop efforts. OpenAI’s competing vision would merge ChatGPT, Codex, and Atlas into a single macOS application, with mixed user feedback on its rollout. Meta AI had been accessible via web and mobile platforms, with substantial desktop capability updates beginning around April 2025, and the Manus acquisition accelerated an existing roadmap to move beyond browser-based interactions. The distinction between cloud-dependent and locally-capable AI tools matters for enterprise adoption, as users have been cautious about sending sensitive documents through third-party servers; a tool that automates file management without data leaving the machine removes a major objection from IT departments.