Is UI-TARS still maintained?

No, archived. The owners archived it: no more fixes or updates.

How widely used is UI-TARS?

Widely used. 12k stars, 1 year old, by an organization. As with any download, get it from the official repo.

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How to install UI-TARS on Linux (bytedance/UI-TARS) · gitmanual

How to install on Linux

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Is it free?: YesOpen source (Apache-2.0).
Still maintained?: No, archivedThe owners archived it: no more fixes or updates.
How widely used?: Widely used12k stars, 1 year old, by an organization. As with any download, get it from the official repo.

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Will it work on Linux?

Your system

First: a virtual environment

Python's own advice: install into a fresh environment, in its own folder (~/ui-tars), so it can't clash with other tools.

mkdir -p ~/ui-tars
cd ~/ui-tars
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate

pipNeeds Python >=3.10,<4.0

pip install ui-tars

From the README, exactly as the maintainers wrote it.

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