Does Clawdbot (OpenClaw) Need Eyes? (feat. Alex Finn and Matt Van Horn) | E2247
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Why is the host obsessed with OpenClaw and its “eyes” on Meta Ray‑Bans?
So this to me, guys, is taking uh AI, Claudot, outside of just the digital world and bringing it into our physical world. I can imagine a lot of ideas and use cases for this. Clearly, still a demo. You can play with it. But Alex, first thoughts. Yeah, my first thoughts are I don't find that remote.
Remotely interesting, just to be quite honest with you. I just like to me, my life is not improved by an AI going and buying me monster energy drinks off Amazon. I don't think that has any sort of economic impact on this planet. What interests me is this going and empowering individuals to accomplish what only large corporations could do before, right? That's the interesting thing to me. That's kind of a vision I've been building towards with uh all my products.
Economically useful. I mean, people do a lot of shopping. Companies need to buy a lot of stuff. And I was thinking more about companies that are outside of just the technology realm, might have a use for this just to keep their offices stocked, handle warehouses. Like I was thinking about bringing the power of agenda AI into the physical workspace. This example is a little bit kitschy, a little bit funny, but it's a it's a demo. But I could see this showing up in warehouses and factories and so forth. This week in Startups is brought to you by Northwest Registered Agent. Get more when you start your business with Northwest. In 10 clicks and 10 minutes, you can form your company and walk away with a real business identity.
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Hey everybody, February 9th, 2026. Always like to have the date here. I'm Jason Calicanus. It's Twist. Here's Alex Wilhelm. How are you doing, Alex? You got a new baby in the house. You haven't been sleeping,
but you're showing up for work. I'm I'm fired up. I'm not currently changing diapers and finding pacifiers. This is a really welcome change of pace. And we're gonna go live.
Today, we're going to be doing more open claw. We're still open claw-shotted. We're claw-shotted, open clawed.
What are Alex Finn’s first impressions of Vision Claw and why does he think it’s not useful?
I'm not sure exactly what it is, but we're obsessed with this new piece of technology. I think this is as important as Bitcoin or the internet or the mobile revolution. I think the open claw agent revolution is here. All right, let's get to Open claw because I have been What's the right term here? I think it's claw-pilled. I've been claw-pilled. That's the best uh way to say this. What is open claw? You probably have heard if you're new to this, uh, people talking about clawed bot, then malt bot. The company has settled on the name open claw. Or I should say the open source project is open claw. What is open claw? It lets you create. An agent, a personality. We call them replicants here at my investment firm launch and at this week in startups.
And then you can give OpenClaw access to things like your calendar, your Gmail, your Notion instance, your Slack. Uh, your Twitter handle, your Reddit login, your LinkedIn logged in. And then it is designed to appease you and do multi-stage tasks like. Hey, go and get my DMs from these three platforms and organize them or Find out from my email every morning and my Slack and create like a dossier of the day. These are very simple examples, but It's multi-stage examples and uh it can take actions on your behalf. Why isn't it such a huge revelation today, Alex? It's basically because all the other software programs that we've had have been sandboxed. All the AI products have been sandboxed. You can't go to ChatGPT and say, put this on my schedule.
You certainly can't say, Go find my password for Gmail, find all the uh travel receipts I have and then make a Google Doc out of them or Google Sheet and then you know uh cross reference them with this.
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