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@openclaw 47 products, and most people still think an agent is just a chatbot with a new name. I use OpenClaw and Hermes every day and they don't even feel like the same category. That map is gonna need sub-maps by next month.
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Here's everything that happened in Personal AI Agents this week from OpenAI, SpaceXSI, Meta, OpenClaw, Nous Research, Perplexity, Pally, Wabi, Strawberry, Fo, Tomo, Vellum and more.
(save for later + share with your team) 🧵
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Here's everything that happened in Personal AI Agents this week
from OpenAI, SpaceXSI, Meta, Anthropic, OpenClaw, Nous Research, Perplexity, Instinct, Pally, Wabi, Fo, Strawberry, Partyline, Town and more.
(save for later + share with your team) 🧵
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@wabi (new):
• Oct 19: Replika founder @ekuyda opens Wabi 2.0 to everyone: a multiplayer assistant and messenger where shared threads work as group chats and the agent builds custom apps for you. Free for now (TechCrunch)
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Building in public extreme mode
I love hearing from people like @ArkStabler who are using OpenClaw to help businesses grow
But I REALLY love hearing that he helps people like Donna become OpenClaw power users
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Are you a company that sets up OpenClaw for small businesses?
I want to share your story!
Over the last few months, we've added a ton of new features and improved a lot of quality-of-life issues
This video covers a few of those and shares a little bit about what we're going to be doing over the coming months
0:11 New models
0:17 Multiplayer
0:44 Multiplayer in action
1:20 Interactive dashboards
1:57 Memory & skills
2:08 Meetings & voice
2:20 Easier Mac setup
2:32 What's next
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Sitting at lunch in the Marina and heard a date going on a few tables over
The woman was asking all kinds of questions, they guy happily answering
He did not ask her a single question
I’ll be spending all week with the @openclaw team
What would you like me to tell them?
The average agent:
- Built by them
@openclaw:
- Built by you
I think @hrudolph is an underrated tinkerer/builder/devrel
This preview is badass
Small bird, fast wings, Kolibri is here.
78B parameters. 3.46B active. Up to 1M tokens of context. Built in Europe.
Now the weights are yours. Run it on your own hardware, under Apache 2.0.
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Out: giving your agent a cute personality and name
In: Naming your agent Ida Blankenship and giving it her personality
Proposal: The HomeFront Benchmark
Mac/Oc/Linux setups
Test local model/harness performance and how it’s tracking behind the frontier
But more specifically how it’s tracking the free experience of the frontier labs
Is this interesting to anyone?
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This is what I want
Who is doing the best work benchmarking how far free coding models/harnesses are behind the frontier?
Both local and self hosted
My guess is less than six months behind
My friend and I were remarking on how great books are
I stopped for a second and said, "tech bros discover books"
It's the same instinct as comics, to observe and comment
Just not funny or valuable
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Values mogging
@Simemeulation imagine thinking I’d be upset about more people building cool open source shit
My @openclaw agent called a Japanese restaurant to make a reservation for my upcoming trip. With @twilio and @ChatGPT voice. 🤯
cc:@steipete
