By Roger Montti
Publication Date: 2026-03-30 09:42:00
Google quietly updated its list of user-triggered fetchers to include a new one called Google-Agent. The new agent will be used by its Project Mariner tool that began as an AI browser agent and may now be part of a pivot to compete with OpenClaw-style personal agents.
OpenClaw
OpenClaw is a new type of personal AI agent assistant that is able to perform a wide range of tasks online. In fact, it is able to form teams with one agent as the manager (the orchestrator) handing out tasks to specialized agents in a team. These AI agents run from a laptop or desktop device as well as in hosted environments. They are model-agnostic and can connect to any cloud-based AI providers like Anthropic (Claude), Google (Gemini), and OpenAI.
Chinese AI providers like MiniMax, Moonshot AI (Kimi), Alibaba Cloud (Qwen), and DeepSeek are increasingly popular because they are significantly less expensive than mainstream American AI providers, further driving the personal AI agent boom.
The personal AI…
