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EPISODE · Feb 7, 2026 · 1H 10M

We built OpenClaw Ultron to replace 20 people at our company | E2246

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This Week In Startups is made possible by: Crusoe Cloud - https://crusoe.ai/savings Lemon IO - https://Lemon.io/twist Northwest Registered Agent - https://www.northwestregisteredagent.com/twist Thanks to our guests: Alex Cheema of ExoLabs http://exolabs.net Ryan Yanneli of NextVisit https://nextvisit.ai/ Today's show:  It's the Age of Ultron at TWiST and LAUNCH. We've given our OpenClaw digital Replicants the keys to all of our systems and we're seeing how much of our jobs they can really do when left to their own devices. Producer Oliver stops by the show to give us a peek behind the curtain, at the new control panel and dashboard OpenClaw built FOR ITSELF (with a bit of human assistance). PLUS we're joined by Alex Cheema of ExoLabs. His company helps everyday consumers run powerful frontier LLMs on their own devices, essential to protect your data and personalize your AI experience. ALSO congratulations to Ryan Yanneli from NextVisit on winning our Gamma Pitch Deck Competition! He walks away with $25K from LAUNCH and our friends at Gamma. Timestamps: (00:00) Introducing Alex Cheema to the show (3:17) Why it is so important to run AI on local hardware (6:58) Using OpenClaw Producer to automate TWiST (8:59) How to Train your AI (11:58) What is a Chron Job? (Hint: chron means chronological) (13:24) Crusoe Cloud: Crusoe is the AI factory company. Reliable infrastructure and expert support. Visit https://crusoe.ai/savings to reserve your capacity for the latest GPUs today. (17:53) OpenClaw managing the LAUNCH/TWiST team (19:54)  Lemon.io - Get 15% off your first 4 weeks of developer time at https://Lemon.io/twist (20:58) Turning AI into Ultron, self optimization (27:21) The Future: frontier models: running on your Iphone! (28:37) Prompt injections: how people can hack your OpenClaw (30:25) Northwest Registered Agent - Get more when you start your business with Northwest. In 10 clicks and 10 minutes, you can form your company and walk away with a real business identity —  Learn more at https://www.northwestregisteredagent.com/twist (31:31) OpenClaw invites guests that join the show (40:29) Oliver shows off OpenClaw mission control dashboard (46:30) Stacking Apple Silicon vs. Running Kimi-K (50:18) How Exo Labs works — stringing together Mac Silicon (54:29) Ryan from Nextvisit wins Gamma Pitch Competition (59:10) Industry Season 4 reflects tech regulation * Subscribe to the TWiST500 newsletter: https://ticker.thisweekinstartups.com Check out the TWIST500: https://www.twist500.com Subscribe to This Week in Startups on Apple: https://rb.gy/v19fcp * Follow Lon: X: https://x.com/lons * Follow Alex: X: https://x.com/alex LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexwilhelm/ * Follow Jason: X: https://twitter.com/Jason LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasoncalacanis/ * Thank you to our partners: (13:24) Crusoe Cloud: Crusoe is the AI factory company. Reliable infrastructure and expert support. Visit https://crusoe.ai/savings to reserve your capacity for the latest GPUs today. (19:54)  Lemon.io - Get 15% off your first 4 weeks of developer time at https://Lemon.io/twist (30:25) Northwest Registered Agent - Get more when you start your business with Northwest. In 10 clicks and 10 minutes, you can form your company and walk away with a real business identity —  Learn more at https://www.northwestregisteredagent.com/twist Check out all our partner offers: https://partners.launch.co/

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