The viral personal AI assistant formerly known as Clawdbot has a new shell — again. After briefly rebranding as Moltbot, it has now picked OpenClaw as its new name.

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OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot) has rebranded again after legal issues with Anthropic and is now an open-source AI assistant project with over 100,000 GitHub stars. The community has created Moltbook, a social network where AI assistants interact autonomously, sharing information and organizing themselves. While the project shows promise for personal AI assistants that run locally and integrate with chat apps, significant security concerns remain, including unsolved prompt injection vulnerabilities. The project is currently suitable only for technical users who understand command-line operations, though it has attracted notable sponsors and is working toward paying full-time maintainers.

OpenClaw’s AI assistants are now building their own social network

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