H Company claims its released open-weight Holo4 GGUF models (27B dense and 35B-A3B MoE) driven through the hai-agents harness deliver practical locally runnable computer-use agents; independent adoption or benchmark results would establish open-weight screen-control agents as a working local alternative to hosted computer-use APIs.
state: seedheat: lowuncertainty: mediumnovelscott: mediumcomputer-use-agents open-weights local-inferenceH Company
What is this?
H Company is a Paris-based AI lab whose Holo line of open-weight computer-use vision-language models — built on Qwen — takes screenshots and emits clicks, keystrokes, and multi-step plans; one third-party writeup reports Holo3 (March 2026, Apache 2.0) beating GPT-5.4 on OSWorld-Verified (77.8% vs 75%), and Holo3.1 (June 2026) was the first generation shipped with quantized FP8/NVFP4/Q4 GGUF checkpoints for fully local inference on ~24GB-class consumer GPUs. The case claims a follow-on Holo4 release — a 27B dense and a 35B-A3B MoE in GGUF, driven through the hai-agents harness as a practical local computer-use agent — but none of the supplied web results mention Holo4 or hai-agents at all: every independent source on record stops at Holo3.1, and the claimed 'Qwen3.8' base is likewise unattested (the web knows Qwen3.5 and Qwen3.6). Holo4's existence, architecture, and license therefore rest entirely on case-side evidence, including an echoed (reconstructed) release note and a Reddit comment quoting the HF model card as CC BY-NC 4.0 — which would be a license change from the Apache 2.0 attested for Holo3, but is unverified. No independent benchmarks, download/adoption figures, or third-party implementations of Holo4 appear anywhere in the supplied material.
Why it matters to Scott
The license report is the news: if the Holo4-27B card really carries CC BY-NC 4.0, the release drops from 'shippable local alternative to hosted computer-use APIs' to a gamepc-benchmark-only artifact that can never route aicrm's LM Studio browser-agent path — concrete new information bearing on projects he actively runs, not a repetition of or convergence with any position his wikis hold. But the license rests on a single echoed Reddit comment (Apache-2.0 was only ever verified for Holo3.1, and Holo4 itself is otherwise unattested with zero independent results), so the actionable content is a two-minute HF-card license check and a re-rank of his local computer-use candidates — medium, not high.
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queries asked of Scott's wikis
- browser agent LM Studio OpenAI-compatible local endpoint aicrm
- BrowserUse displacement thesis hosted computer-use APIs
- non-commercial license open weights product shipping constraint
- OSWorld computer-use benchmark position
- gamepc 16GB GGUF local inference ceiling
- agent harness design screen control local models
Measured heat
now 0 pts/hpeak 23 pts/hcomments 0/hpeers p14momentum: steady3 platformsage 317h
points/hour across evidence · reading as of 2026-10-12 02:59:37.977291+11:00 · deterministic, not a model opinion
How the heat travelled
pace: p55 vs 1188 stories at the 168h mark (now 317h old) — ahead of agent-iap-credential-brokering (1.0x), behind kapa-company-knowledge-bench (1.0x)
Evidence (4) — ⭐ canonical anchor
Interpretation history
2026-09-29T11:51:36Z
The new evidence is a same-title duplicate of the dead launch HN thread (different submitter, 2/0) — repeated coverage, not corroboration, so the case's meaning is unchanged: an unverified first-party Holo4 claim resting on an unconfirmed CC BY-NC license report, with zero independent results and attention fully faded.
2026-09-29T11:27:11Z
evidence attached: hn.story.49891108 — shared external link with case evidence
2026-09-29T03:25:35Z
grounded: novel/medium — The license report is the news: if the Holo4-27B card really carries CC BY-NC 4.0, the release drops from 'shippable local alternative to hosted computer-use AP
2026-09-29T03:15:49Z
A Reddit comment quoting the Holo4-27B HF model card gives the license as CC BY-NC 4.0 non-commercial, contradicting the Apache-2.0 framing the cached grounding carries (which was only ever verified for Holo3.1, never Holo4) — this shifts the case's meaning from a shippable open-weight alternative to hosted computer-use APIs to a research-licensed artifact Scott can benchmark but not productize, and warrants a fresh grounding pass to verify license, the claimed 35B-A3B variant, and Holo4 specifics generally. Meanwhile launch-window attention has fully faded (0.33 pts/h vs 18.6 peak, dead HN thread) with zero independent results, so the case stays a quiet seed.
2026-09-29T02:30:37Z
evidence attached: hn.story.49886437 — H Company's own Holo4 announcement is the first-party artifact the seed case tracks.
2026-09-28T12:01:32Z
grounded: converges/high — H Company is productizing a bet Scott's own stack already made — browser/screen agents driven through local OpenAI-compatible endpoints (aicrm's LM Studio brows
2026-09-28T11:52:13Z
case created — First-party release of open-weight computer-use VLMs with a harness, squarely on the local-inference and agent-harness radar with no existing case.
Decision trace
- 10-11 10:32review_dormantscheduled targets exhausted or 28 quiet days
- 10-11 10:32drop_targetsquiet through full ladder or over cap 8
- 09-29 21:51repriceThe new evidence is a same-title duplicate of the dead launch HN thread (different submitter, 2/0) — repeated coverage, not corroboration, so the case's meaning is unchanged: an unverified first-
- 09-29 21:27attachshared external link with case evidence
- 09-29 21:21propose_attachshared external link with case evidence
- 09-29 13:25repriceA Reddit comment quoting the Holo4-27B HF model card gives the license as CC BY-NC 4.0 non-commercial, contradicting the Apache-2.0 framing the cached grounding carries (which was only ever verified f
- 09-29 13:25groundThe license report is the news: if the Holo4-27B card really carries CC BY-NC 4.0, the release drops from 'shippable local alternative to hosted computer-use APIs' to a gamepc-benchmark-only
- 09-29 12:30attachH Company's own Holo4 announcement is the first-party artifact the seed case tracks.
- 09-29 12:30propose_attachH Company's own Holo4 announcement is the first-party artifact the seed case tracks.
- 09-29 07:23sensor_dirtycomment_update
- 09-28 22:01groundH Company is productizing a bet Scott's own stack already made — browser/screen agents driven through local OpenAI-compatible endpoints (aicrm's LM Studio browser-agent route, ask's --o
- 09-28 21:52createFirst-party release of open-weight computer-use VLMs with a harness, squarely on the local-inference and agent-harness radar with no existing case.