Nvidia Reportedly Developing Its Own Answer to OpenClaw

Nvidia is about to announce its Claw, According to Wired. Can you believe it? Nvidia claw!

Which claw do you use for your Agent AI tasks? Light Nanoclaw? Safety is the focus IronClaw? Oh, I can tell from your fashion sense that you’re retro and you prefer the OG—OpenClaw. Sometimes I get nostalgic about six weeks ago too. Simpler times!

If you don’t know what the hell I’m talking about, you’re not a deranged AI freak, which is lucky for you. But remember that this whole “claw” trend is moving very fast. Nvidia’s position as the lead developer of CUDA, the proprietary software platform behind AI chip architectures and much of the AI ​​world, could mean that Nvidia wants to get into the claw game and set standards for an important new technology category.

I bought a new Mac mini over the weekend to get the claws working properly. The apple store employee told me that they are selling like hotcakes and everyone is freaking out 🙂

I’m a little suspicious of running OpenClaw specifically – I’m giving away my private data/keys to 400K lines of vibe code…

— Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) February 20, 2026

Claws, a hardware and software trend that started last year with the release of OpenClaw (formerly known as Clawdbot and Moltbot), are usually packages for LLMs like Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex, and ostensibly act as personal assistants that can perform tasks related to writing code and browsing the web. Users typically set up a dedicated computer to run Claw, attach an expensive LLM subscription to it, give it access to their personal information and accounts, and then communicate with it via a messaging app like WhatsApp (Claws is also popular, a security nightmare).

Founder of OpenClaw, Austrian software engineer and former entrepreneur Peter Steinbergerwas hired by OpenAI last month. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI he wrote His mission at OpenAI is “driving the next generation of personal agents,” and he expects what Steinberger creates there to “quickly become the core of our product offerings.”

According to Wired , whose reports on Nvidia come from anonymous leaks — or “people familiar with the company’s plans,” to use Wired’s phrase — Nvidia is (currently?) approaching enterprise software companies to discuss a claw platform called NemoClaw. Enterprise software platforms have recently come under an all-out stock price attack from investors. Market behavior suggests it believes the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model is overvalued Thanks to the expected automation made possible by tools like OpenClaw.

Nvidia is apparently giving these companies free early access to NemoClaw, meaning that in exchange for contributions to Nvidia’s claw project, they can get actual work tasks from claw-like AI agents, regardless of whether their systems run on Nvidia chips. Google, Adobe, Salesforce, Cisco, and CrowdStrike are potential partner companies mentioned by Wired, though they have so far been tight-lipped about whether they will partner with Nvidia.

NemoClaw is reported to be open source and its nickname is that it Nemotron A family of open source models like the Nemotron 3 announced last year. The press release For Nemotrom 3, it says these models are “designed to power the development of transparent, efficient and specialized agent AI across industries.”

According to a report by Wired, NemoClaw will be announced at Nvidia’s GTC developer conference next week. This means that if The Wall Street Journal reports It is certain that it will coincide with the release of a Nvidia also plans to release a new inference chip.