title: @0thernet: Clawdbot took the world by storm. And it’s been absolute mayhem on the timeline ...
author: 0thernet
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published: 2026-01-27T19:20:20+00:00
source_url: https://x.com/0thernet/status/2016620653558824968
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Clawdbot took the world by storm. And it’s been absolute mayhem on the timeline this week. People we
Clawdbot took the world by storm. And it’s been absolute mayhem on the timeline this week. People went on a frenzy buying Mac Minis, or figuring out how to run Clawd on a VPS. Setting up a server properly is hard – so unsurprisingly, researchers found thousands of Clawdbot servers publicly exposed to the internet . Anthropic saw all of this and forced Clawdbot to rebrand to Moltbot. During the rename, crypto vultures swooped in, took over the X and GitHub handles, and pumped and dumped an unaffiliated memecoin (stay safe out there, I’ve seen a bunch of Clawd-related scams circling around).
All the chaos aside, the Clawdbot hype was super well-deserved. Pete Steinberger and his open-source community really cooked. The positioning was brilliant – a DIY, open-source AI assistant that does real work for you, running on a lowly Mac Mini. We had AGI all along! All we had to do was give the AI a computer.
At @zocomputer , we were early believers in this idea – today’s AI models can be made much more powerful by giving the agent a home. Our framing: a personal AI server. Now after Clawdbot, tons more people get it. Personal AI servers are undisputably going to be part of the future.
Our goal with Zo has been to design an AI computer experience that’s simple enough for my mom to use, but powerful enough for computer nerds like me.
Clawdbot is intimidating. I don’t think my mom, or my girlfriend – even my adventurous non-technical friends – should be using Clawdbot. But my mom, my girlfriend, and all my friends are using Zo.
Zo Computer vs Clawdbot
With Zo, you don’t have to go buy a Mac Mini or figure out how to deploy Clawdbot on a VPS. You don’t have to read the latest X articles and documentation to figure out how to set things up. Clawdbot feels kinda cyberpunk once you've got it running... But it's kind of a lot. And it's also kind of... not enough.
With Zo, you instantly get a server with 100GB storage, access to all the top AI models, the ability to text or email your AI, scheduled tasks (AI cron jobs), simple web hosting (you can host websites, or @n8n_io , or a @plex media server – literally anything), and built-in integrations with Google Drive, Dropbox, Notion, Linear, Airtable, and more.
You get a rich file browser – with collaborative AI editing for nearly every file type. Even vibe coding websites! You get Lovable, plus several other YC startups built-in to your Zo. And it's all running on your server. Including the Zo application itself – which we'll probably open-source.
One of many things you can do in Zo – ask for an app that connects to your MIDI keyboard and teaches you piano
We include tons of built-in tools for your AI, for free – image generation with @NanoBanana , @xai search, @ExaAILabs search, browser automation with @steeldotdev and @browser_use , Google Maps search, @stripe payments, and much more.
Zo is infinitely extensible – because it can write, run, and deploy code. We’re compatible with the industry standard Agent Skills specification (as well as AGENTS.md ), and we’ve curated many excellent skills from Clawdhub and the @vercel Skills Registry.
You might be thinking – "but the world runs on Claude Code! I can't live without 10x subsidized inference on my Claude Max subscription!" Well you're right – we felt the same way.
That's why we're making it possible to use your Claude Max subscription directly inside Zo. You can literally replace your "agent harness" with Claude Code. You can use the same Zo interface, and even text Zo. But the agent responding will be Claude Code (with all Zo's context and capabilities). This is possible through clever use of @zeddotdev 's Agent Client Protocol , and the fact that your Zo is a server. We'll add support for Codex, Gemini, and other coding agent CLIs very soon.
Open source vs Closed source
I spent 8 years at @stripe from 2015-2023 – and I know what it takes to build a developer platform with abstractions that last. We'll open-source the parts that make sense. Soon, we'll be releasing an open-source agent orchestration + context graph framework (think Gastown). We have no qualms about open-sourcing many more parts of Zo, and we'll eventually offer a self-hosted version. But our core focus will always be providing you with a simple, polished, fully-managed AI compute experience.
I strongly believe that the brightest future for humanity is one where thousands of intelligences bloom. The owners of these intelligences should have custody over their brains, software, data, and compute. I'm really glad Clawdbot woke everyone up to this future – we're very much aligned with that future @zocomputer .
Use our code CLAWDBOT for $30 in AI credits when you sign up, and 20% off your managed AI server subscription:
Me chatting with Zo to make the cover image
Posted: 2026-01-27T19:20:20.000Z
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