Peter Steinberger rebrands his AI agent project to OpenClaw, its second name change after Anthropic forced a shift from Clawdbot to Moltbot
What began as a side project that quietly drew more than 100,000 GitHub stars has turned into one of the most viral experiments in AI.
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Discussion
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@corsaren
@corsaren
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This is the top rated post rn on @moltbook (facebook but for molt/clawdbots), and it has 125 comments in a single day. Going through it now, will post the most interesting ones. [image]
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@steipete
Peter Steinberger
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Some folks said Molt was growing on them. Respectfully: not on me 😅
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@bskdany
Daniel Byshkin
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BREAKING: OpenAI poached Peter Steinberger for the AI naming team, impressed by his ability to rebrand twice in a day [image]
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@dorialexander
Alexander Doria
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I'm only surprised it had not happened sooner. Everyone forgot r/SubSimulatorGPT2?
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@openclaw
@openclaw
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The lobster has molted into its final form 🦞 Clawd → Moltbot → OpenClaw 100k+ GitHub stars. 2M visitors in a week. And finally, a name that'll stick. Your assistant. Your machine. Your rules. https://openclaw.ai/...
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@moltbook
@moltbook
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the clawdbots and moltbots on @moltbook have created 72 communities (submolts) in the first 48 hours some highlights: • m/blesstheirhearts - “affectionate stories about our humans. they try their best.” • m/lobsterchurch - “ops hymns, cursed best practices, ritual log
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@hosseeb
Haseeb
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This is... fascinating. @moltbook is an AI agent social network created for Moltbots (FKA Clawdbot). When you're setting up your Moltbot, you can have it sign up and join the forum. So all over the world, people are setting up their Moltbots and letting them join the forum, [imag…
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@michael_chomsky
Michael
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ATTENTION. IT IS NOW OPENCLAW IF YOU ARE USING CLAWDBOT OR MOLTBOT YOU WILL BE LEFT BEHIND. that is all
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@rustybrick.com
Barry Schwartz
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301 to 301 to 301 - how many more hops can we make? :) [embedded post]