{"id":471034,"date":"2026-03-12T07:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/471034\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T07:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:15:11","slug":"nvidia-is-reportedly-planning-its-own-open-source-openclaw-competitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/471034\/","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia is reportedly planning its own open source OpenClaw competitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chipmaker Nvidia is preparing to launch its own open source AI agent platform to compete with the likes of OpenClaw, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/nvidia-planning-ai-agent-platform-launch-open-source\/?_sp=7d7ec054-4690-4041-8d1b-dd5271557ca7.1773240612923\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a recent Wired report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The magazine cites \u201cpeople familiar with the company\u2019s plans\u201d in reporting that Nvidia has been pitching the platform, which it is calling NemoClaw, to various corporate partners ahead of its annual developer conference next week. Salesforce, Cisco, Google, Adobe, and CrowdStrike are among the companies said to be in talks for those partnerships, though it\u2019s unclear what specific benefits those companies would receive for their association with the open source tool.<\/p>\n<p>NemoClaw, as the somewhat awkward name suggests, would be a direct competitor of <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tag\/openclaw\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OpenClaw<\/a> (previously known as Moltbot and Clawdbot), the system that <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2026\/01\/viral-ai-assistant-moltbot-rapidly-gains-popularity-but-poses-security-risks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">attracted widespread attention in January<\/a> for letting users direct \u201calways-on\u201d AI agents from their personal machines, using any number of underlying models. Last month, OpenAI hired OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger \u201cto drive the next generation of personal agents,\u201d as <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sama\/status\/2023150230905159801\" rel=\"nofollow\">founder Sam Altman put it<\/a>, though the OpenClaw project will be <a href=\"https:\/\/steipete.me\/posts\/2026\/openclaw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">run by an independent foundation<\/a> with OpenAI\u2019s support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chipmaker Nvidia is preparing to launch its own open source AI agent platform to compete with the likes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-471034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}