OpenClaw is not just a trend anymore
While OpenClaw was created by Peter Steinberger as a fun project and became popular quickly, it's not just a trend anymore. All the big and small companies are happily adopting it at a fast rate, and it doesn't see to slow down. Yet.
In this post, I will be collecting the recent happenings related to OpenClaw and help you understand what's going on.
Companies are introducing ways to deploy OpenClaw in simple ways
Most recently, Moonshot launched Kimi Claw, a quick way to deploy OpenClaw with just a click. But it's not the only one, and in fact, companies like z.ai, Cloudflare, Hostinger, DigitalOcean, Azure, Vercel, Railway, and countless more have already added one-click deploy options for OpenClaw.
It seems, no company wants to miss the train.
A major AI lab might acquire OpenClaw
Peter, the creator of OpenClaw, was on Lex Fridman's podcast and revealed that Meta and OpenAI companies are talking to him about potential acquisition of the tool. He did say that it's not yet finalized, but as people are pointing out on socials, it's almost certain at this point. Most probably, Meta is the one acquiring OpenClaw but Peter mentioned that his terms are that the tool always stays open-source – much like the model of Chrome and Chromium.
Again, it seems, the major AI labs are fighting to get OpenClaw on their side.
A lot of contributions incoming, probably too much
The creator recently mentioned that pull requests on OpenClaw are growing at an impossible rate that it's slowly becoming extremely difficult for him to manage this single-handedly. He mentions doing 600 commits in a day, and now there are still more than 3,200 open pull-requests on GitHub.
I can see that the website, docs, repo, and everything is constantly being updated. What I see yesterday is modified today, and I remember Peter also talking about everything happening too fast and would want to slow down a bit.
Lots of competing similar tools are coming
People loved the idea of an agent like OpenClaw so much that a lot of folks are even building lighter versions of it. Recently, I came across these:
- PicoClaw: Written in
Goand can run on a hardware with just 10MB RAM. - MimiClaw: Written in
C, runs on a $5 hardware (ESP32-S3 board), no Linux or Node.js required. - ZeroClaw: Written in
Rust, runs on a hardware with even 5MB RAM. - NanoBot: Written in
Python, requires around 100MB of RAM to run. - TinyClaw: Written in Typescript, lets you create a team of AI agents that talk to each other.
Crazy stuff, right?
Lastly, at the time of writing this post OpenClaw GitHub now has more than 197k stars. ⭐️
Update:
Most probably, Meta is the one acquiring OpenClaw...
I couldn't have been more wrong with my prediction here. OpenClaw went with OpenAI and the acquisition is final now as both Sam Altman and Peter confirmed it on their socials, and Peter also wrote a blog post about it.
I hope OpenClaw actually stays open-source, unlike OpenAI.
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