Artificial intelligence · November 2025

OpenClaw personal agents

An open-source agent that lives in your chat apps and acts for you.

Peter Steinberger's open-source assistant, renamed OpenClaw on January 30, 2026, ran on a user's own machine and took instructions through messaging apps. It passed 247,000 GitHub stars by March 2026, the fastest adoption of a personal agent to that point.

See it in the living tree Wikipedia Source

Arcs above join it to what it stood on, arcs below to what it led to. The bar places this stretch on the tree's whole timeline.

What it built on 2

LLM tool use 2022
Open source 1998

Related measurements

The dashed line marks when it first worked.

Best AI score on GPQA Diamond Latest: 95.8 % correct (2026) Source: Epoch AI, Capabilities & benchmarking (benchmark_data.zip, gpqa_diamond.csv); Anthropic: Claude 3 public launch (March 4, 2024)

Training compute of notable AI models Source: Epoch AI, Notable AI Models (CC BY 4.0)