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A (0:00)
So this to me, guys, is taking AI Cloudbot outside of just the digital world and bringing it into our physical world. I can imagine a lot of ideas and use cases for this. Clearly still a demo. You can play with it. But Alex, first thoughts?
B (0:13)
Yeah, my first thoughts are I don't find that remotely interesting, just to be quite honest with you. I just like, to me, my life is not improved by an AI going and buying me monster energy drinks off Amazon. I don't think that has any sort of economic impact on this planet. What interests me is this going and empowering individuals to accomplish what only large corporations could do before. Right. That's the interesting thing to me and that's kind of the vision I've been building towards with all my products economically useful.
A (0:45)
I mean, people do a lot of shopping, companies need to buy a lot of stuff. And I was thinking more about companies that are outside of just the technology realm, might have a use for this, just to keep their offices stocked, handle warehouses. Like I was thinking about bringing the power of agentic AI into the physical workspace. This example is a little bit kitschy, a little bit funny, but it's a, it's a demo. But I could see this showing up in warehouses and factories and so forth. This week in startups is brought to you by 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@northwestregisteredagent.com Twist every IO for all your incorporation, banking, payroll, benefits, accounting, taxes or other back office administration needs, visit every IO and LinkedIn jobs hire right the first time, post your job and get $100 off towards your job post@LinkedIn.com that's LinkedIn.com twist. Terms and conditions apply.
C (1:59)
Hey, everybody. February 9th, 2026. Always like to have the date here. I'm Jason Calacanis. It's Twist. Here's Alex Wilhelm. How are you doing, Alex? You got a new baby in the house. You haven't been sleeping, but you're showing up for work.
A (2:11)
I'm fired up. I'm not currently changing diapers and finding pacifiers. This is a really welcome change of.
C (2:16)
Pace and we're going to go live today. We're going to be doing more Open claw. We're still open claw shotted. We're clawshotted. Open clawed. I'm not sure exactly what it is, but we're obsessed with this new piece of technology. I think this is as important as Bitcoin. Or the Internet or the mobile revolution. I think the Open Claw agent revolution is here. All right, let's get to Open Claw because I have been. What's the right term? I think it's claw pilled. I've been claw pilled. That's the best way to say this. What is openclaw? You probably have heard, if you're new to this, people talking about Claude Bot, then Maltbot, the company has settled on the name openclaw or I should say the open source project is openclaw. What is openclaw? It lets you create an agent, a personality. We call them replicants here at my investment firm launch and at this week in startups. And then you can give OpenClaw access to things like your calendar, your Gmail, your notion instance, your Slack, your Twitter handle, your Reddit login, your LinkedIn logged in and then it is designed to appease you and do multi stage tasks like, hey, go and get my DMs from these three platforms and organize them or find out from my email every morning and my Slack and create like a dossier of the day. These are very simple examples, but it's multi stage examples and it can take actions on your behalf. Why is this such a huge revelation today, Alex? It's basically because all the other software programs that we've had have been sandboxed. All the AI products have been sandboxed. You can't go to ChatGPT and say, Put this on my schedule. Certainly can't say, go find my password for Gmail, find all the travel receipts I have and then make a Google Doc out of them or Google Sheet and then, you know, cross referencing with this. You just, you would be unwise for a company that's getting paid money, that has liability to give the keys of the kingdom to an agent. However, you as a sovereign individual can be a lunatic and let AI have the keys to the kingdom. This is giving the teenagers the keys to the car and a credit card and the bank account and the Robinhood account. They can go trade, they can do anything. Yes. So now that we've gotten that out of the way, what do we have on deck today? I know we have two great guests. I know we've got some news. Take me through what we're going to do.
