"Moltbot, displayed as a cute crustacean, promotes itself as an "AI that actually does things." Spawned from the mind of Austrian developer Peter Steinberger, the open-source AI assistant has been designed to manage aspects of your digital life, including handling your email, sending messages, and even performing actions on your behalf, such as checking you in for flights and other services."
"Rather than operating a standalone backend AI model, Moltbot harnesses the power of Anthropic's Claude (guess why the name change from Clawdbot was requested, or check out the lobster's lore page) and OpenAI's ChatGPT. In only a matter of days, Moltbot has gone viral. On GitHub, it now has hundreds of contributors and around 100,000 stars -- making Moltbot one of the fastest-growing AI open source projects on the platform to date."
Moltbot is an open-source AI assistant rebranded from Clawdbot after an IP nudge from Anthropic. It runs on individual computers and connects through messaging apps such as iMessage, WhatsApp, and Telegram to perform tasks like handling email, sending messages, and checking users in for flights. The assistant supports over 50 integrations, skills, and plugins, persistent memory, and both browser and full system control. Moltbot uses Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's ChatGPT rather than a standalone backend model. Rapid viral growth on GitHub produced hundreds of contributors and about 100,000 stars, prompting security concerns about scammers exploiting the trend.
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