# The Open Claw Wave 2: 300K Stars, 1,400 Malicious Skills, and a Fork from Every Tech Giant

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Published: 2026-06-30T06:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

A live recording of my talk at the June 10th NC Tweener Fund Open Claw meetup in Research Triangle Park. The second gathering of our local AI agent community. A lot has changed since April. Here's what I cover: - Open Claw by the numbers: 300K GitHub stars, 3.2M active users, fastest-growing project in GitHub history - What went wrong in April; broken updates, 1,400+ malicious marketplace skills, and why the community got nervous about OpenAI's intentions - How the project is stabilizing: monthly releases, long-term support plan, leaner core - The fork landscape: NVIDIA's NemoClaw, Microsoft's Scout, Google's Gemini Spark, Alibaba's Qwen, and Facebook's rumored $200/month Hatch - Hermes: the MIT-licensed open-source upstart getting the most attention in the Triangle right now - Why Satya Nadella said "OpenClaw" 28 times at Microsoft Build (and Tim Cook said it zero times at WWDC) - What Triangle founders are actually shipping with day-to-day Enjoy the conversation. Timestamps: 00:02 Welcome & Cold Open 00:23 Sponsor Thanks 01:25 Scot's Intro: The Open Claw Wave #2 04:48 Live Meetup Begins 05:17 Meetup Sponsors Recognized 05:56 Talk Order & How to Give a Future Talk 06:17 Big Picture Check-In Since April 06:29 Open Claw Stats: 300K Stars, 3.2M Users 07:38 LTS Plan, Monthly Releases & Stability Signal 08:33 What Broke in April 09:27 The Marketplace Crisis: 1,400+ Malicious Skills 10:03 Jensen Huang & NVIDIA's NemoClaw at GTC 10:50 "Personal Operating System for AI" 11:15 Satya Nadella at Microsoft Build: Scout Announced 11:43 Two Worlds: Copilot vs. Open Claw Users 13:50 Tim Cook Gets 0 OpenClaw Mentions at WWDC 14:09 Chinese Model Forks 15:05 The Clone Landscape: Gemini Spark, Hermes, Multus 16:07 Facebook's Rumored Hatch ($200/month) 16:59 Perplexity Pe…

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