Shaan Puri

Has an existential life crisis.

Like, what do I want to do?

Decides, all right, I'm going to keep building.

That's what I enjoy doing.

So he starts building open source projects.

He launches like, you know, 40, 50 different open source, small little tools or projects before this.

And then he decides to create like Jarvis from the movies.

He's like, why don't I just have an AI assistant that lives on my computer, like on my desk, and I just tell it to do things and it could just do it.

And the problem with most AI tools before this was that they, you know, you could talk to, you could go to that AI app and you could talk to it and it could tell you things, but it couldn't do a whole lot, right?

Because it didn't have access to your different apps and your accounts and it couldn't message somebody, it couldn't send money, it couldn't control this, it couldn't control that.

And he was like, forget it.

I'm going to give it God mode.

I'm going to give it access to this stuff.

And the reason why I can do that is I'll put it on my own little computer here instead of in the cloud, and it will run as an open source project locally on my computer.

So he releases this thing initially called CloudBot, and then the Anthropic who makes Cloud was like, hey,

We kindly suggest you change your name if you want to ever see your mother again or something.

So he gets forced to change.

He changes it once, twice, and it ends up becoming OpenClaw.

So it becomes one of the fastest growing GitHub projects ever.

Twitter goes nuts over this thing.