Jaden Schaefer
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Podcast Appearances
So this is a really, really interesting technology.
And even if people don't think it's perfect today, which I mean, it's running a lot of a lot of interesting tasks.
this is going to be the future, and it is kind of a huge, huge moment.
So I want to break down a little bit of the story, the backstory of OpenClaw, where it came from, where the founder came from, where he's going today, because it is a lot more interesting than I realized.
So when OpenClaw first launched, it wasn't called OpenClaw.
It was called ClaudeBot.
And when that happened, it wasn't Claude, like, you know, Anthropix Claude.
It was like a claw, and the logo's a lobster.
And of course, OpenAI's legal team sent them a cease and desist for it because it was getting a ton of traction on GitHub.
Basically, everyone was talking about it.
It was kind of the concept of agents that everyone started talking about in 2023, but it finally felt like it was realized.
And that was basically because...
Anthropic and OpeningEye both released their latest models of Codex and Cloud that have kind of the swarm capability of having multiple agents running multiple things simultaneously.
There's a lot of big tech breakthroughs that came, I think, at the perfect moment for this to really take off and be super useful.
And, of course, OpenCloud was the only one really completely taking over your computer and being able to do that.
So there's a lot of people that were automating a ton of different human tasks.
It was managing calendars.
It was booking your flights.
It was cleaning your inbox.
It was doing a ton of just...