Open-source project Clawdbot has gone viral in Silicon Valley. This 24/7 AI assistant has unlimited memory and proactive service capabilities, can run on a Mac mini, sparking a hardware buying frenzy, with some developers purchasing up to 12 Mac minis at once.
(Background: What is Clawdbot? The most powerful personal AI assistant in 2026: integrates mainstream messaging platforms like TG, WhatsApp, Slack, etc., with installation tutorials)
(Additional context: Why are people underestimating Elon Musk’s xAI? Its competitiveness is far more formidable than you think)

Table of Contents

• Clawdbot becomes a sensation, the “true JARVIS” arrives
• Silicon Valley collective chaos, AI takes over everything
• Write your own code, beat Zapier
• Mac mini sales explode, Tim Cook smiles
• A lobster rules the world
• How to get started?
• Do you need technical skills?

It’s crazy! Overnight, everyone in Silicon Valley is obsessed with Clawdbot, dubbed the “7x24h JARVIS.” It has unlimited memory, can come whenever called, and actively gets things done. Most astonishingly, it single-handedly ignited the Mac mini craze.

The pace of AI iteration in Silicon Valley is so fierce, it leaves no room for humans…

Waking up to find the entire internet flooded with news about a 24/7 AI assistant—Clawdbot.

This is an open-source project by developer Peter Steinberger, recently wildly popular in the tech circles.

Clawdbot can run smoothly on a single Mac mini, serving two roles:

A locally operated “AI agent” that can invoke models like Claude, Gemini, etc.;

A “gateway” that allows communication via chat apps like WhatsApp, iMessage, etc.

No exaggeration—Clawdbot has completely reshaped the concept of a 2026 “personal super assistant.”

In fact, an AI startup CEO exclaimed, “We have AGI now!” Since installing Clawdbot, it has silently handled a bunch of tasks—

Most astonishingly, it solves the biggest pain point of current mainstream large models—memory. It remembers trivial things mentioned two weeks ago.

Suddenly, people are sharing their Mac configurations and posting various tutorials for Clawdbot.

Perhaps even Tim Cook didn’t expect that his own Mac mini would sell out overnight!

One developer configured 12 Mac minis at once, with each costing $599, totaling $7,188 (about 50,000 NTD).

The true ultimate AI network is Clawdbot.

Clawdbot becomes a sensation, the “true JARVIS” arrives

Actually, Clawdbot isn’t a brand-new AI; it was born at the end of last year.

At that time, Vienna-based software engineer Peter Steinberger published a lengthy article describing his workflow in 2025.

He admitted, “The most profound change this year is that I almost no longer read code.”

Peter Steinberger makes a comeback after retirement

He built an “all-in-one personal butler” called Clawdis, with full access to all computers, messages, and emails.

Moreover, it acts as a physical “remote control,” integrating home automation systems to control cameras, lights, music, and even adjust bed temperature.

It also has its own voice system running Clawdbot.

In fact, from Steinberger’s article, we can glimpse the key capabilities—

Clawd is an AI cyber butler with “highest authority,” managing human daily life and overseeing other AI agents.

At the time, the article also received high praise from Karpathy.

Just like after the release of Claude Opus 4.5, which didn’t cause much stir for a long time.

A month later, and now, Claude Code demonstrated its true power to Silicon Valley. Clawdbot is the same.

It’s an open-source project on GitHub, with nearly 9.2k stars and 1.2k forks.

GitHub link: https://github.com/clawdbot/clawdbot

Clawdbot focuses on “24/7 personal assistant,” bringing the long-anticipated “JARVIS” into reality.

Silicon Valley chaos, AI takes over everything

Clawdbot’s real killer feature is its AI agent.

It can run entirely on a personal local computer, with all settings, memories, and commands stored in folders and Markdown files.

Except for invoking large models that require internet, everything else is local. This means it has access to the computer’s shell and file system.

This is the most explosive part!

Because it has permissions, Clawdbot can execute terminal commands, write and run scripts in real-time, install new skills, and even set up MCP servers for external integrations.

Ultimately, everyone can have a self-evolving, fully controllable personal agent.

Instead of more description, it’s better to see the “magic” demos from developers.

Official impressive demo of Clawdbot: https://clawd.bot/showcase

Dan Peguine used Clawdbot to manage his parents’ tea business, and it handled:

Auto scheduling → Follow-up with clients → Inventory management → Customer service, and it gets smarter over time.

He exclaimed, “In a few months, Clawdbot will be able to handle businesses of any size.”

Developer Nimrod Gutman proudly states that Clawdbot helped him develop an incredible feature!

It automatically sets up a home assistant, intelligently controlling the boiler based on weather data from the past 12 hours, so even on cloudy days, no worries about cold showers.

AI browser Arc developer Andrew Jiang tested it: after giving Clawdbot a prompt for 24 hours, it completed content scraping for 100 top accounts across platforms, totaling 40 million tweets.

Now, he can collaborate with a writing AI to craft his first story. Creating content in this era is truly amazing.

Some people are completely obsessed with Clawdbot’s capabilities.

A big shot said, “Clawdbot is all you need.”

Write your own code, beat Zapier

Developer Federico Viticci shared: Clawdbot showed me what future AI personal assistants will look like.

In testing, he asked Clawdbot to add a feature to generate images using Google Nano Banana Pro model.

It not only did that but also obeyed commands to change its avatar to a “Zelda-style crab.”

In daily use, the “memory file” is basically an automatically generated Markdown diary recording daily interactions.

The most exciting—and terrifying—moment for Viticci came when he asked if it could help him save money by turning off automation services he previously bought on Zapier, and run locally on Mac mini instead.

For example, after sending out the newsletter every Friday, automatically create a new project in Todoist.

Clawdbot thought for a moment and proposed a solution: set up a cron job on Mac mini to check RSS feeds every few hours, and if there are updates, call the Todoist API to create tasks.

After a 5-minute chat, it actually wrote all the code and tested the process on Mac. No cloud dependency, no subscription fees, fully handled by local LLM calling shell tools.

Mac mini sales explode, Tim Cook smiles

Now, many people are stacking Mac minis at home just to run it.

Netizens joke that the father of Clawdbot single-handedly boosted Apple’s Q1 sales. Even Tim Cook must be smiling in his sleep.

Is it that you can’t do without a Mac mini?

Clawdbot’s creator says you don’t need to buy extra hardware—just deploy a VPS.

Even old MacBooks or gaming PCs can run it, and Raspberry Pi is barely enough.

A lobster rules the world

On his personal homepage, “ClawdBot’s father” aims to help a lobster conquer the world.

And now, he has succeeded.

Many are so eager to use it that they almost go crazy. A developer shared some practical tips and tutorials for non-developers to get started.

Basically, ChatGPT and Claude live on websites; humans have to actively find them, type, wait for replies, then copy and paste elsewhere.

Clawdbot is an AI “living” inside your phone. The main reasons for its popularity are three:

1. It really has “memory”

Ask Siri what you said yesterday, and it will be clueless.

Clawdbot remembers your last conversation, your preferences, and even a trivial thing you mentioned two weeks ago.

It accumulates background info over time, becoming more understanding of you.

The Siri that Apple couldn’t perfect in 13 years is now conquered by a retired AI veteran.

2. It will “proactively” find you

This is the coolest part. Ordinary AIs always wait for you to open them. Clawdbot actively reaches out:

Hey, you have 3 urgent emails, and there’s a meeting in 20 minutes;

The stock you follow just dropped 5%;

The weather tomorrow isn’t great—you might want to adjust your schedule.

It feels like hiring a real personal secretary who keeps an eye on everything.

3. It can directly control your computer

It’s not just talking; it can really do work:

Fill out forms, send emails, move files, run programs, control browsers…

A guy lying in bed watching Netflix restructured an entire website. He never touched a laptop, just texted Clawdbot instructions.

Developers warn that many fall into a misconception—

I’ve seen people stacking 3 Mac minis on their desk, pulling Raspberry Pis everywhere, acting like building a data center, but that’s unnecessary.

Clawdbot runs fine on a $5/month cloud server, cheaper than a coffee, with a minimum cost of $25.

The technical requirements are simple:

A cheap cloud server (or your own computer)

Install Node.js (free software)

A subscription to Claude or ChatGPT—done. No need to build a “Mac mini farm.”

Estimated basic costs—

Software: free (open source)

Server: $5-50/month (depending on usage). Most buy a $5 Hetzner VPS or run on their own PC (0 cost).

AI costs: $20-100/month. Claude Pro is $20/month, or pay per API usage.

Total: about $25-150/month, and you get a truly capable AI assistant.

Think about it—some “AI consultants” charge $10,000 for a basic bot. This price is insanely attractive.

So, what’s the difference between it and ChatGPT, Siri?

ChatGPT is a chat box; Clawdbot is an assistant living in your personal life. Siri’s memory is like a goldfish; Clawdbot actually has a brain.

How to get started?

In simple terms, Clawdbot runs on a computer, connects to chat apps, and responds when you send messages.

Of course, it can also perform tasks on the computer.

From a professional perspective, there’s a “gateway” running in the background, acting like a switchboard.

Messages come in via Telegram or other channels, the gateway forwards them to AI. The AI thinks, replies, and triggers actions—like opening a browser or running scripts.

Besides calling APIs for Claude/ChatGPT, no personal data is sent to any company’s servers.

Some classic use cases:

Morning briefing: Wake up to a summary on your phone—important emails, daily schedule, to-do list. Clears your mind before getting out of bed.

Health tracking: “Connect to WHOOP fitness band, report data daily,” done in 5 minutes, automatically gaining health insights.

Email management: “Unsubscribe from all these spammy newsletters,” it logs into your email, finds spam, and handles it.

Research assistant: “Find 5 highly-rated restaurants near Tokyo hotels.” It searches, compares prices, and gives suggestions—all within the chat.

Task automation: “Every Friday at 5 pm, send me a weekly review.” Set once, it runs forever.

High-end automation: Someone had Clawdbot write meditation scripts, generate audio with AI voice and background music, and send it to him every morning—completely automated.

Do you need technical skills?

Honestly, a little.

If you can follow instructions and copy commands, you can do it. It’s not a “click-and-done” product, but it’s not rocket science either.

Official website here: https://clawd.bot

Installation command is just one line:

curl -fsSL https://clawd.bot/install.sh | bash

Then follow the setup wizard, which guides you on connecting chat software.

If that’s too hardcore, wait a few months. The community keeps optimizing the process weekly, making it easier.

In this info-overloaded era, what people lack is a second brain that filters, remembers, and executes for them.

Clawdbot is a perfect example, helping many realize their dreams.

Perhaps, in the future, a company only needs a CEO and many Clawdbots.