OpenClaw: The Lobster That Broke the Internet, Burned Through Every LLM's Compute Budget, and Started a War Between Anthropic and OpenAI
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A retired Austrian developer built an open-source AI agent for fun in November 2025. Within 90 days, Jensen Huang called it the most successful open-source project in human history.
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