OpenClaw AI agent surge
App & software · 2025
OpenClaw drew more than 100,000 GitHub stars as its personal AI agent spread.
Spread Score
How it worksNumbers
- Seed to milestone
- 6 weeks
- Dec 19 ’25 to Jan 29 ’26
- Platforms
- 2
- Started on Open web
- Origin
- Seeded
- Technology
Mechanics
How it spread
Trace the originA personal AI assistant grew from Steinberger’s WhatsApp relay. Clawdbot drew demos and forum discussion, became OpenClaw, and inspired agent networks such as Moltbook.
Documented milestone; not a measured attention peak.
Timeline (16)
December 2025
OpenClaw seed · Dec 19 ’25
The project described CLAWDIS as a personal AI assistant in its GitHub documentation.[1]
January 2026
OpenClaw owner response · Jan 4 ’26
The project documentation began calling the personal AI assistant CLAWDBOT.[1]
Federico Viticci press · Jan 20 ’26
Viticci described using the assistant via Telegram to manage personal tasks.[2]
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Spread the same way
Do this
- 1Show specific tasks in demos that other people can reproduce.
Every number (7)
- GitHub stars reported by TechCrunch“more than 44,200 stars on GitHub”44.2K[5]
Press (3 outlets)
- Jan 26, 202638 days in
Windows Central · Clawdbot hype divides Windows users
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