By Aisha Down
Publication Date: 2026-02-02 07:00:00
A new viral AI personal assistant takes care of your email inbox, swaps out your entire stock portfolio, and sends “good morning” and “good night” to your wife on your behalf.
OpenClaw, formerly known as Moltbot and before that known as Clawdbot (until AI company Anthropic requested a rebrand due to similarities with its own product Claude), bills itself as “the AI that actually does things”: a personal assistant that takes instructions via messaging apps like WhatsApp or Telegram.
Developed last November, it now has nearly 600,000 downloads and has gone viral among a niche ecosystem of AI obsessives who say it represents a major shift in the capabilities of AI agents, or even an “AGI moment” — that is, a revelation of generally intelligent AI.
“It only does exactly what you tell it to do and exactly what you give it access to,” said Ben Yorke, who works with AI Vibe trading platform Starchild and recently allowed the bot to delete 75,000 of its…
