The Open Claw Wave 2: 300K Stars, 1,400 Malicious Skills, and a Fork from Every Tech Giant
A live recording of my talk at the June 10th NC Tweener Fund Open Claw meetup in Research Triangle Park. The second gathering of our local AI agent community.
A lot has changed since April. Here's what I cover:
- Open Claw by the numbers: 300K GitHub stars, 3.2M active users, fastest-growing project in GitHub history
- What went wrong in April; broken updates, 1,400+ malicious marketplace skills, and why the community got nervous about OpenAI's intentions
- How the project is stabilizing: monthly releases, long-term support plan, leaner core
- The fork landscape: NVIDIA's NemoClaw, Microsoft's Scout, Google's Gemini Spark, Alibaba's Qwen, and Facebook's rumored $200/month Hatch
- Hermes: the MIT-licensed open-source upstart getting the most attention in the Triangle right now
- Why Satya Nadella said "OpenClaw" 28 times at Microsoft Build (and Tim Cook said it zero times at WWDC)
- What Triangle founders are actually shipping with day-to-day
Enjoy the conversation.
Timestamps:
00:02 Welcome & Cold Open
00:23 Sponsor Thanks
01:25 Scot's Intro: The Open Claw Wave #2
04:48 Live Meetup Begins
05:17 Meetup Sponsors Recognized
05:56 Talk Order & How to Give a Future Talk
06:17 Big Picture Check-In Since April
06:29 Open Claw Stats: 300K Stars, 3.2M Users
07:38 LTS Plan, Monthly Releases & Stability Signal
08:33 What Broke in April
09:27 The Marketplace Crisis: 1,400+ Malicious Skills
10:03 Jensen Huang & NVIDIA's NemoClaw at GTC
10:50 "Personal Operating System for AI"
11:15 Satya Nadella at Microsoft Build: Scout Announced
11:43 Two Worlds: Copilot vs. Open Claw Users
13:50 Tim Cook Gets 0 OpenClaw Mentions at WWDC
14:09 Chinese Model Forks
15:05 The Clone Landscape: Gemini Spark, Hermes, Multus
16:07 Facebook's Rumored Hatch ($200/month)
16:59 Perplexity Personal Computer
18:04 Hermes Deep Dive
18:47 Comparison Chart Walkthrough
19:21 Hand-Off & Wrap
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This episode of Triangle Tweener Talks is hosted by Scot Wingo, and presented and produced by NC Tweener Fund, with creative assets and design support from Walk West.
We couldn’t share posts like this without our amazing sponsors:
Platinum:
NC IDEA: https://ncidea.org
Gold Sponsors:
- Balentine: https://www.balentine.com/triangle-entrepreneurs
- EisnerAmpner: https://www.eisneramper.com
- Robinson Bradshaw: https://www.robinsonbradshaw.com
Silver Sponsors:
- Automated Consulting Group: https://automated.co
- Bank of America: https://business.bofa.com/en-us/content/technology-industry-group.html
A lot has changed since April. Here's what I cover:
- Open Claw by the numbers: 300K GitHub stars, 3.2M active users, fastest-growing project in GitHub history
- What went wrong in April; broken updates, 1,400+ malicious marketplace skills, and why the community got nervous about OpenAI's intentions
- How the project is stabilizing: monthly releases, long-term support plan, leaner core
- The fork landscape: NVIDIA's NemoClaw, Microsoft's Scout, Google's Gemini Spark, Alibaba's Qwen, and Facebook's rumored $200/month Hatch
- Hermes: the MIT-licensed open-source upstart getting the most attention in the Triangle right now
- Why Satya Nadella said "OpenClaw" 28 times at Microsoft Build (and Tim Cook said it zero times at WWDC)
- What Triangle founders are actually shipping with day-to-day
Enjoy the conversation.
Timestamps:
00:02 Welcome & Cold Open
00:23 Sponsor Thanks
01:25 Scot's Intro: The Open Claw Wave #2
04:48 Live Meetup Begins
05:17 Meetup Sponsors Recognized
05:56 Talk Order & How to Give a Future Talk
06:17 Big Picture Check-In Since April
06:29 Open Claw Stats: 300K Stars, 3.2M Users
07:38 LTS Plan, Monthly Releases & Stability Signal
08:33 What Broke in April
09:27 The Marketplace Crisis: 1,400+ Malicious Skills
10:03 Jensen Huang & NVIDIA's NemoClaw at GTC
10:50 "Personal Operating System for AI"
11:15 Satya Nadella at Microsoft Build: Scout Announced
11:43 Two Worlds: Copilot vs. Open Claw Users
13:50 Tim Cook Gets 0 OpenClaw Mentions at WWDC
14:09 Chinese Model Forks
15:05 The Clone Landscape: Gemini Spark, Hermes, Multus
16:07 Facebook's Rumored Hatch ($200/month)
16:59 Perplexity Personal Computer
18:04 Hermes Deep Dive
18:47 Comparison Chart Walkthrough
19:21 Hand-Off & Wrap
---
This episode of Triangle Tweener Talks is hosted by Scot Wingo, and presented and produced by NC Tweener Fund, with creative assets and design support from Walk West.
We couldn’t share posts like this without our amazing sponsors:
Platinum:
NC IDEA: https://ncidea.org
Gold Sponsors:
- Balentine: https://www.balentine.com/triangle-entrepreneurs
- EisnerAmpner: https://www.eisneramper.com
- Robinson Bradshaw: https://www.robinsonbradshaw.com
Silver Sponsors:
- Automated Consulting Group: https://automated.co
- Bank of America: https://business.bofa.com/en-us/content/technology-industry-group.html
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Triangle Tweener Talks is sponsored by:
Triangle Tweener Talks is sponsored by:
- Atomic Object: https://atomicobject.com/
