Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says companies can’t ignore the OpenClaw moment.
“Every company in the world today needs to have an OpenClaw strategy, an agent system strategy,” Huang said Monday at Nvidia’s 2026 GTC conference in San Jose. “This is a new computer.”
Huang deeply praised OpenClaw (formerly known as Clawdbot and Moltbot), an open source AI agent that has taken Silicon Valley by storm. OpenAI lured OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger, but the service will continue as an open source project.
“OpenClaw allows us to create personal agents,” he said. “The meaning is incredible.”
Huang said OpenClaw “delivered exactly what the industry needed at exactly the right time.”
OpenClaw will do for AI what Windows did for personal computing, Huang said. He also compared OpenClaw to other influential technologies such as the Linux operating system, the Kubernetes cloud project, and HTML.
“This allows the entire industry to take advantage of this open source stack and do things with it,” Huang said.
Huang said there is one big caveat to using OpenClaw that Nvidia is working to address: security. Nvidia announced a spin on OpenClaw called NemoClaw that allows users to add privacy and security controls to their AI agents (or “claws”).
“We had network guardrails and privacy routers that allowed us to protect and prevent crawling within our company and allow it to be done securely,” Huang said.
Nvidia is promoting NemoClaw at the conference by hosting a “Build-a-Claw” event where attendees can develop their own custom-made AI agents.
“OpenClaw brings people closer to AI and helps build a world where everyone has their own agent,” Steinberger said in a statement released by Nvidia. “Leveraging Nvidia and the broader ecosystem, we are building the claws and guardrails that will enable anyone to create powerful and secure AI assistants.”
Huang made a number of other announcements at Nvidia GTC on Monday. That includes a new inference system that incorporates technology from Groq, an AI chip startup with which Nvidia has a $20 billion deal. He also predicted that demand for Blackwell and Rubin’s AI chips will reach $1 trillion by 2027.
