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

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-dayEnjoy the conversation.Timestamps:00:02 Welcome & Cold Open00:23 Sponsor Thanks01:25 Scot's Intro: The Open Claw Wave #204:48 Live Meetup Begins05:17 Meetup Sponsors Recognized05:56 Talk Order & How to Give a Future Talk06:17 Big Picture Check-In Since April06:29 Open Claw Stats: 300K Stars, 3.2M Users07:38 LTS Plan, Monthly Releases & Stability Signal08:33 What Broke in April09:27 The Marketplace Crisis: 1,400+ Malicious Skills10:03 Jensen Huang & NVIDIA's NemoClaw at GTC 10:50 "Personal Operating System for AI"11:15 Satya Nadella at Microsoft Build: Scout Announced11:43 Two Worlds: Copilot vs. Open Claw Users13:50 Tim Cook Gets 0 OpenClaw Mentions at WWDC14:09 Chinese Model Forks15:05 The Clone Landscape: Gemini Spark, Hermes, Multus16:07 Facebook's Rumored Hatch ($200/month)16:59 Perplexity Personal Computer 18:04 Hermes Deep Dive18:47 Comparison Chart Walkthrough 19:21 Hand-Off & Wrap --- This episode of Triangle Tweener Talks is hosted by Scot Wingo, and presented and produced by NC Tweener Fund, with creative assets and design support from Walk West. We couldn’t share posts like this without our amazing sponsors: Platinum: NC IDEA: https://ncidea.orgGold Sponsors: - Balentine: https://www.balentine.com/triangle-entrepreneurs - EisnerAmpner: https://www.eisneramper.com - Robinson Bradshaw: https://www.robinsonbradshaw.com  Silver Sponsors: - Automated Consulting Group: https://automated.co - Bank of America: https://business.bofa.com/en-us/content/technology-industry-group.html  ------Triangle Tweener Talks is sponsored by:Atomic Object: https://atomicobject.com/