The journey from Clawd to Moltbot to OpenClaw—and why this name is here to stay.

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OpenClaw is an open-source AI agent platform that runs locally on your machine and integrates with messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, and Slack. The project, which gained 100,000 GitHub stars in two months, has been rebranded from Clawd (legal issues with Anthropic) and Moltbot to its final name OpenClaw. The latest release adds Twitch and Google Chat support, new AI models (KIMI K2.5, Xiaomi MiMo-V2-Flash), image support in web chat, and 34 security-related improvements. The platform emphasizes user control over data and infrastructure, running on your own hardware rather than external servers.

Introducing OpenClaw — OpenClaw Blog

<p>I genuinely don’t understand how this is any different than any other chat bot + a bunch of MCP servers, except a lot more insecure. Why so popular?</p>
