Autonomous's $299 Intern 2 is a plug-and-play desktop AI agent in iMessage
dee_hw · x · 2026-11-09
Autonomous launched Intern 2, a $299 plug-and-play desktop AI assistant preloaded with the open-source OpenClaw agent. It now lives in iMessage alongside Telegram and Slack, handling tasks like scheduled Monday briefings that summarize shipped features, blockers, and pending decisions. Reviewers at New Atlas, The Register and others praise its isolation model and cloud inference approach.
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