It’s wild that the first commit to OpenClaw was on November 25th 2025 (https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/f6dd362d39b8e30bd79ef7560aab9575712ccc11), and less than three months later it’s hit 10,000 commits from 600 contributors, attracted 196,000 GitHub stars and sort-of been featured in an extremely vague Super Bowl commercial for AI.com (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7I-D4YXbzg).

Quoting AI.com founder Kris Marszalek (https://twitter.com/kris/status/2020663711015514399), purchaser of the most expensive domain in history (https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/09/70m_aicom_domain_sale/) for $70m:

ai.com is the world’s first easy-to-use and secure implementation of OpenClaw, the open source agent framework that went viral two weeks ago; we made it easy to use without any technical skills, while hardening security to keep your data safe.

Looks like vaporware to me - all you can do right now is reserve a handle - but it’s still remarkable to see an open source project get to that level of hype in such a short space of time.

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