Nine months after Clawdbot went viral, proprietary clones like Grok Bot and Duet arrive
petergostev · x · 2026-10-22
Peter Gostev notes that roughly nine months after Clawdbot (now Openclaw) went viral, companies are only now launching proprietary versions — Grok Bot, Instinct, Muse, Dots, and now Duet. Despite the complexity, the industry response feels slow. As others point out, giving everyone a secure cloud computer that safely interacts with plugins and local machines is genuinely hard.
Related event: OpenClaw Went Viral Nine Months Before Big Tech Followed(3 posts)→
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