OpenClaw just hit 150,000 GitHub stars but most people misunderstand what it actually is Everyone keeps calling it an “AI model” with trillion parameters. It’s not. OpenClaw is an agent framework no weights, no training data. You bring your own Claude or ChatGPT API key and it gives that model hands, memory, and tools. It runs 24/7 on your machine and takes real actions while you’re doing other things. The real stories are what make it interesting: A developer tasked it with buying a car. It scraped dealer inventories, played dealerships against each other for days, and got $4,200 below sticker. The owner only showed up to sign. Someone’s OpenClaw discovered a rejected insurance claim and filed a rebuttal on its own — without being asked. The insurer reopened the investigation. Nearly 1,000 people queued at Tencent’s Shenzhen HQ to get it installed on their laptops. Local entrepreneurs started charging $72 to install it on-site. The creator, Austrian developer Peter Steinberger, has since joined OpenAI. The project lives on as open-source. Worth noting it has real security risks if you don’t know what you’re doing it has shell access and can send emails autonomously. Not a toy for non-technical users yet. submitted by /u/Remarkable-Dark2840
Originally posted by u/Remarkable-Dark2840 on r/ArtificialInteligence