--- title: Introducing OpenClaw — OpenClaw Blog | daily.dev description: OpenClaw is an open-source AI agent platform that runs locally on your machine and integrates with messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, and Slack.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-openclaw-openclaw-blog-sp4gfh0cm twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Introducing OpenClaw — OpenClaw Blog | daily.dev og:description: OpenClaw is an open-source AI agent platform that runs locally on your machine and integrates with messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, and Slack.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-openclaw-openclaw-blog-sp4gfh0cm og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Sp4GFh0CM.png og:image:alt: Introducing OpenClaw — OpenClaw Blog og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Introducing OpenClaw — OpenClaw Blog **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 3 min read · 14 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary OpenClaw is an open-source AI agent platform that runs locally on your machine and integrates with messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, and Slack. The project, which gained 100,000 GitHub stars in two months, has been rebranded from Clawd (legal issues with Anthropic) and Moltbot to its final name OpenClaw. The latest release adds Twitch and Google Chat support, new AI models (KIMI K2.5, Xiaomi MiMo-V2-Flash), image support in web chat, and 34 security-related improvements. The platform emphasizes user control over data and infrastructure, running on your own hardware rather than external servers. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@amizzo** · 0 upvotes > I genuinely don't understand how this is any different than any other chat bot + a bunch of MCP servers, except a lot more insecure. Why so popular? ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [OpenClaw Full Tutorial for Beginners](https://daily.dev/posts/openclaw-full-tutorial-for-beginners-a1y2rfmsc) · freeCodeCamp · 3 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#bots](https://daily.dev/tags/bots), [#self-hosting](https://daily.dev/tags/self-hosting) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-openclaw-openclaw-blog-sp4gfh0cm) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Introducing OpenClaw — OpenClaw Blog","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-openclaw-openclaw-blog-sp4gfh0cm","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-openclaw-openclaw-blog-sp4gfh0cm"},"datePublished":"2026-01-30T08:20:45.689Z","dateModified":"2026-02-27T07:15:37.220Z","description":"OpenClaw is an open-source AI agent platform that runs locally on your machine and integrates with messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, and Slack....","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/4700f3c093824e4da85364fdadb6a074?_a=AQAEulh","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/4700f3c093824e4da85364fdadb6a074?_a=AQAEulh","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hacker News","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hacker News","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/hn","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},"commentCount":2,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-openclaw-openclaw-blog-sp4gfh0cm","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":14},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}],"keywords":"ai,security,open-source,bots,self-hosting","timeRequired":"PT3M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hacker News","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Introducing OpenClaw — OpenClaw Blog"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-openclaw-openclaw-blog-sp4gfh0cm","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"I genuinely don’t understand how this is any different than any other chat bot + a bunch of MCP servers, except a lot more insecure. 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