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And then Moltbot had then also got changed.
It was also funny because he changed the name to Moltbot and then immediately someone created something called Moltbook, which is like Facebook, but for all the AI agents in that Moltbot was spinning out.
And then he changed the name to OpenClaw, but now Moltbook is stuck as Moltbook forever because that was the eight-hour window that they decided to create a whole social media site for those bots, which is hilarious.
What people love about this, essentially,
is that it is able to access your... You run this thing, it's able to access and control your entire computer.
What a lot of people are using this for is that it's open source, so anyone can grab it and edit it, and there's a ton of cool...
features that people are all open source, like adding features to it.
But people are grabbing Mac minis, and they were both basically installing this on a fresh Mac mini, and they're just having to control the Mac mini.
There's a lot of people that would give it like email addresses, you know, its own Slack account, it's in their company, they would talk to it on Slack and say, Hey, can you go do x, y, z. So they're just like messaging on Slack and go and do these tasks is taking control of the screen.
And it's just, it's an agent, it's an employee, and it's going and running around doing stuff.
There's one VC firm in particular, I saw that had
20 of these running all at the same time um and they're like yeah we've we've like automated like 10 to 20 percent of all the work we do in our firm with these open claw agents that are just running on these mac minis and it's just like running around doing stuff so
Really crazy, but apparently this is working quite well for a lot of people.
It went super, super viral.
Just every single day you see new use cases that people are having to automate all of their emails.
There are some security issues here that we could get into in a bit, but overall, I think it was a really cool product.
Yeah, I think the reason why he specifically got acquired, well, number one, opening eyes acquiring him because it got so many users.
I mean, it had 180,000 stars on GitHub.
So developers like give it a star if they like it.
180,000 is insane.