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Post by Atotalnoob »

dlivingston wrote: post #154
Ampned wrote: post #96

It’s not like Anthropic or OpenAI were not working on “AI assistants” before OpenClaw, it’s pretty much the endgame as I can see it. This guy just single handedly released something useful (and very insecure) before anyone else. Although that’s impressive, I don’t see more than an acquisition of the hype by OpenAI.

My gut feeling is that OpenAI is desperately searching for The Killer App™ for LLMs and hired Peter to help guide them there. OpenAI has tried a lot of experiments over the years - custom GPTs, the Orion browser, Codex, the Sora "TikTok but AI" app, and all have either been uninspired or more-or-less clones of other products (like Codex as a response to Claude Code). OpenClaw feels compelling, fresh, sci-fi, and pote…

Orion is Kagis browser.

Atlas is OpenAIs browser

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Post by johnwheeler »

illichosky wrote: post #107

The guy already sold his previous company for a shitload of money. Got bored and did a side project that stirred the Internet on the past month. That is way more than most people here are going to accomplish in a lifetime. Yet, he has some deal with OpenAI to work on whatever he things exciting. I don't see why so much negative comments here other than jelously

I just dislike Sam Altman, and I think he's just using this as a marketing ploy, which is more dishonesty from him. People keep saying OpenClaw is hype. I installed it, but I never tried to run it, and I don't know what the compelling reason is to. Supposedly you can talk to your agent from your iMessage? Who cares? Why not just talk to Claude Code?

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Post by nikcub »

rukuu001 wrote: post #132
jacquesm wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AMEX, Capital One and Apple are not even close to the top of the list of companies that I would trust with my digital data.

Never mind the list of companies - I'd be very curious to know what the 'trust signals' are that would help you trust a company?

the way they respond to security and privacy incidents + publishing technical security + privacy papers / docs

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Post by FinnKuhn »

Ampned wrote: post #96

It’s not like Anthropic or OpenAI were not working on “AI assistants” before OpenClaw, it’s pretty much the endgame as I can see it. This guy just single handedly released something useful (and very insecure) before anyone else. Although that’s impressive, I don’t see more than an acquisition of the hype by OpenAI.

While insecure and not something I would use myself (yet) one thing OpenClaw has managed to do is to show people the potential that AI still has.

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by mikert89 »

koakuma-chan wrote: post #156
mikert89 wrote: post #51

Is an agent running on a desktop, with access to excel, word, email and slack going to replace Saas? Add in databases, browser use, and the answer could be yes This could be the most disruptive software we have seen

If your SaaS is a CRUD with a shitty UI in React then yes

If the ai model gets better, more and more Saas can be replaced with an agent with an excel sheet

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by nikcub »

Ampned wrote: post #96

It’s not like Anthropic or OpenAI were not working on “AI assistants” before OpenClaw, it’s pretty much the endgame as I can see it. This guy just single handedly released something useful (and very insecure) before anyone else. Although that’s impressive, I don’t see more than an acquisition of the hype by OpenAI.

Regardless of what you think of OpenClaw, Peter is a great hire - he's been at the forefront of brute-forcing app development with coding agents.

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by rob »

All they have to do now is partner with one of the major messaging providers like telegram and they can offer this as a hosted bot solution and probably dominate the market. Yes people are going out there buying mac minis and enjoying setting it up themselves but 90% of the general public don't want to do or maintain that and still want the benefits of all of it.

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by sarreph »

Those attempting to discredit the value of OpenClaw by virtue of it being easily replicable or simple are missing the point. This was, like most successful entrepreneurial endeavours, a distribution play.

The creator built a powerful social media following and capitalized on that. Fair play.

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by thoughtjunkie »

It's kind of a shame actually, because the whole promise of OpenClaw is that you own all the data yourself, you have complete control, you can write the memories or the personality of the bot. "Open"AI will never run ChatGPT this way. They want all of your data, your documents, your calendar, they want to keep it for themselves and lock you into their platform. They will want a sanitised corporate friendly version of an AI agent that reflects well on their brand.
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