New Delhi: A small weekend hack has quietly turned into one of the fastest growing open source AI agent projects on the internet. The tool once called Clawdbot, then briefly known as Moltbot, has now settled on a new identity. Its creator, Peter Steinberger, has officially renamed the project to OpenClaw.

The announcement comes after a period of rapid growth. Steinberger says the project has crossed 100,000 GitHub stars and pulled in around 2 million visitors in a single week. Alongside the new name, the team is also shipping fresh features, more model support, and security updates.

Steinberger shared that the project has gone through multiple naming rounds since November 2025.

“Clawd was born in November 2025, a playful pun on ‘Claude’ with a claw. It felt perfect until Anthropic’s legal team politely asked us to reconsider,” he........

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