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Techfluencers everywhere are fawning over Moltbot, AKA Clawdbot, but I'm not convinced.

According to its website, which can still be found at clawd.bot as well as molt.bot—Claude-owner Anthropic forced the AI bot to change its name because of trademark issues—it says that it's "the AI that actually does things: clears your inbox, sends emails, manages your calendar, checks you in for flights. All from WhatsApp, Telegram, or any chat app you already use."

🦞 BIG NEWS: We've molted!Clawdbot → MoltbotClawd → MoltySame lobster soul, new shell. Anthropic asked us to change our name (trademark stuff), and honestly? "Molt" fits perfectly - it's what lobsters do to grow.New handle: @moltbotSame mission: AI that actually does…January 27, 2026

In fact, it's generated so much hype right now that Cloudflare recently saw its stocks shoot up as a result, because its CDNs could help bolster the kinds of fast connections needed for Moltbot to function well. Stocks have since started to dip again, though.

So, what's all the fuss about? Well, it's such a big deal because you can use it to, erm, remotely play YouTube videos, I guess?

At least, that seems to be the way that many who are dipping their toes into the AI sphere are talking about it. Really, though, the idea is much more than that. The bot is essentially meant to act as a middleman between all of your different apps/accounts and your AI chatbot subscriptions—or at least as many apps and accounts you give it access to.

The end result is that you should be able speak to Moltbot via your usual messaging apps, telling it what to do, and it can go and do these things in the background as long as you've linked it up with all the apps and services it might need to get the job done. It's also supposed to have leeway to be proactive in what it does to help you.

Part of what seems so appealing about it, at least for me, is that Moltbot itself runs locally, on whatever device you want. Or a cloud server of your choice if you choose to go down that route. It sits on a machine of your choosing and stores all its 'memory' persistently on there as Markdown, which initially sounds great if, like me, you're interested in having control over your data.

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In some ways it seems true that it does give you more control over this data. You can control everything about the bot locally, or through remote connection, and version contr

Source: PC Gamer