After Anthropic strongly suggested that Steinberger change its name to avoid any legal issues, the project kept its lobster-themed heritage and eventually landed on the OpenClaw moniker. The software has soared in popularity over the past few months, and several ClawCon attendees who started using it in January referred to themselves as “veterans.”
The software serves as the bridge between today’s powerful AI systems, like Claude or OpenAI’s GPT family of models, and the real-world tasks that people actually want AI systems to accomplish.
After setting up their own OpenClaw agent, either on a physical computer or through a virtual provider, users can send text or WhatsApp messages to it, directing it to perform a variety of tasks within the wheelhouse of today’s AI systems. For example, users say they tell their OpenClaw agents to listen to episodes of their favorite podcast and send summaries of the key ideas to the users’
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