The following is a conversation with Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw,

formerly known as Moldbot, Claudebot, Claudeus, clawed, spelled with a W, as in Lobster Claw.

Not to be confused with Claude, the AI model from Anthropic, spelled with a U.

In fact, this confusion is the reason Anthropic kindly asked Peter to change the name to

OpenClaw.

So, what is OpenClaw?

It's an open source AI agent that has taken over the tech world in a matter of days,

exploding in popularity, reaching over 180,000 stars on GitHub, and spawning the social network mold book where AI agents post

manifestos and debate consciousness, creating a mix of excitement and fear in the general public,

in a kind of AI psychosis, a mix of clickbait fear-mongering and genuine, fully justifiable concern about the role

of AI in our digital interconnected human world. OpenClaw, as its tagline states, is the AI that

actually does things. It's an autonomous AI assistant that lives in your computer, has access to all

of your stuff if you let it talk to you

through telegram WhatsApp signal iMessage and whatever else messaging client uses whatever

AI model you like including cloud opus 4.6 and gpt 5.3 codex all to do stuff for you.

Many people are calling this one of the biggest moments in the recent history of AI

since the launch of Chad GPT in November 2022.

The ingredients for this kind of AI agent were all there,

but putting it all together in a system that definitively takes a step forward over the line

from language to agency, from ideas to actions, in a way that created a useful assistant

that feels like one who gets you and learns from you in an open source community-driven way

is the reason open claw took the internet by storm. Its power, in large part, comes from the fact

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