OpenClaw
Open-source agentic coding and task completion framework built as an alternative to Claude Code, acquired by OpenAI
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“Zuck basically said that he installed it at home and then he called Nat Friedman and Alexander Wang over to his house.”
Source→“He took OpenClaw... and then the Mac minis all sold out.”
Source→“late November and Open Claw gets released. And that kind of takes the actual world by storm”
Source→“OpenAI is expected to enter the market soon after hiring the creator of OpenClaw... to 'drive the next generation of personal agents.'”
Source→“OpenClaw... a breakout hit among AI power users earlier this year.”
Source→“OpenClaw... that one person wrote by himself almost in his apartment and came up with a whole new way of interacting with models.”
Source→“OpenClaw got two major things right... if you can just give your bot access to the tools that you do, that you use to do your job, it can get a lot of the way there”
Source→“OpenClaw 2.0 — The AI that really does things (145 votes)”
Source→“The agent is 'Bob', running on OpenClaw with DeepSeek V4 as the primary model.”
Source→“I tried other agent software, including Hermes, yet it did not feel like Bob.”
Source→“The conventional framing is that the best AI agent = the best underlying model. Lael's experience inverts this. Switching from Gemini to DeepSeek to GPT barely registered as a disruption, while a broken embedding service effectively killed Bob's personality.”
Source→“"Bob started at the beginning of 2026. The OpenClaw software asked me to write what it called a 'soul file.'"”
Source→“Fun is velocity. The weeks I enjoyed building, the product got visibly better. The weeks I didn't, we shipped config options.”
Source→“Open-source AI agent framework that lets users run Claude and other models locally across any device. ... Almost 3,000 people have commits in the repo... Jensen called it the most successful open source project in the history of humanity.”
Source→“when the big labs came knocking, and suddenly I was on the phone with Mark, Sam, a few others, this seemed like a much more interesting path. My gut told me that I like OpenAI the most.”
Source→“Peter joined OpenAI as an employee/partner after OpenClaw went viral, choosing this over competing lab offers and VC money.”
Source→“I need to give NVIDIA a special shout out. Because they were very early and they simply asked me what I need. And then they sent people to take over much of the security work.”
Source→“Your dependencies business model is your business model... when they pinged me with around 24 hours notice that they are going to disable the subscription for everyone, there was not really enough time to change course.”
Source→“We bottomed out at around 835,000 weekly downloads in May. And then after being declared death in June, we peaked at 4.7 million. The highest ever.”
Source→“In Australia, a user's OpenClaw agent found flaws in a gym reservation system enabling the user to move up the waitlist by kicking off another user.”
Source→“How Peter single-handedly built one of the most useful AI personal assistants and scaled it so massively that it became a household name worldwide is insane. Again, just one person with a bunch of agents.”
Source→“How Peter single-handedly built one of the most useful AI personal assistants and scaled it so massively that it became a household name worldwide is insane. Again, just one person with a bunch of agents.”
Source→“Peter single-handedly built one of the most useful AI personal assistants and scaled it so massively that it became a household name worldwide… just one person with a bunch of agents.”
Source→“Uses the open source AI agent OpenClaw to track World Cup match results.”
Source→“Guez says in his profile that he will only answer DMs sent via Canary, his AI language learning app, which means that these women have to download his app…Guez has gotten over one million views and 200 DMs in a few days.”
Source→“OpenClaw - Description: Workflow automation tool for investors - Why mentioned: Referenced in a prior newsletter episode as a case study for automating daily investor workflows”
Source→“OpenCraw runs on your Mac, so it can access all files on your Mac, access your calendar, your messages. The heartbeat mechanism lets it complete scheduled tasks. Its memoryMD system is very interesting — while ChatGPT and Claude Code all try to separate sessions to prevent context mixing, OpenCraw puts everything in one big conversation.”
Source→“Peter had previously sold a company for $100M, so he's already an 'experienced operator' in our taxonomy. While using Claude Code, he thought: when I'm eating, how can I continue using my Coding Agent? So he naturally built a hook connecting his Mac's Claude Code to his IM.”
Source→“Perplexity Computer is probably the best version of it. But it's still like, you know, pretty limited compared to what you could do with OpenClaw and Hermes Agent.”
Source→“The ability to run your own software, to change your own prompts, to test all of it, to have your own private repo that like you know is only yours. To be able to choose which model to use... to me that's sort of the white pill for AI.”
Source→“Last time we ran this chart, OpenClaw looked like an outlier. Turns out it was just the new normal for next-gen agents!”
Source→“OpenClaw really utilizes your file system. It creates kind of memories, right? And it even has like a special bash access. [00:07:12:920]”
Source→“What's really made it a special magical moment is this kind of like orchestration of the context... OpenClaw really utilizes your file system. It creates kind of memories, right? And it even has like a special bash access.”
Source→“OpenClaw (Open-source Agent Framework, now acquired by OpenAI)”
Source→“I myself actually regard OpenClaw as an epoch-making agentic framework — that's how I define it.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.