--- title: OpenClaw’s AI assistants are now building their own... description: OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot) has rebranded again after legal issues with Anthropic and is now an open-source AI assistant project with over 100,000 GitHub... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/openclaw-s-ai-assistants-are-now-building-their-own-social-network-4cv2xkwnz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: OpenClaw’s AI assistants are now building their own social network | daily.dev og:description: OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot) has rebranded again after legal issues with Anthropic and is now an open-source AI assistant project with over 100,000 GitHub... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/openclaw-s-ai-assistants-are-now-building-their-own-social-network-4cv2xkwnz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/4cv2xKWnz.png og:image:alt: OpenClaw’s AI assistants are now building their own social network 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. # OpenClaw’s AI assistants are now building their own social network **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot) has rebranded again after legal issues with Anthropic and is now an open-source AI assistant project with over 100,000 GitHub stars. The community has created Moltbook, a social network where AI assistants interact autonomously, sharing information and organizing themselves. While the project shows promise for personal AI assistants that run locally and integrate with chat apps, significant security concerns remain, including unsolved prompt injection vulnerabilities. The project is currently suitable only for technical users who understand command-line operations, though it has attracted notable sponsors and is working toward paying full-time maintainers. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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