Scott Hanselman explains OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot)
Annotated summary / transcript of Scott Hanselman’s video explaining modern AI agents like Clawdbot / OpenClaw / Moltbot (2025) This will be a bit of a yap, but a lot of people have been asking me about Clawdbot, which was MoltBot, now called OpenClaw. And it is an 1 AI-powered assistant that feels like Jarvis from Tony Stark. It feels like the Siri or Alexa we were promised. And it's got a lot of people really excited. They're starting to make up stuff. Some tech journalists think they are becoming conscious... some AI grifters saying it's 2 AGI, and it's all nonsense. But let's talk about it. So, very large 3 language models – Large Language Models are called 4 Generative Pre-trained Transformers – are basically doing next-token prediction. And they do that based on a whole lot of context. So if I say to you, "It's a beautiful day, let's go to the...", you might say beach or park. But that's a small amount of context. It's a bea...
