NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang stated that companies cannot afford to ignore the era of OpenClaw. Speaking at the NVIDIA GTC 2026 conference in San Jose, California on Monday, Huang emphasized, "Every company in the world today needs an OpenClaw strategy, a strategy for an agent system. This is the new computer."
Huang praised OpenClaw highly, referring to the open-source AI agent formerly known as Clawdbot and Moltbot, which has generated significant excitement in Silicon Valley. Despite OpenAI recruiting OpenClaw's founder, Peter Steinberger, the service will continue as an open-source project.
"OpenClaw enables us to create personal agents," Huang said. "Its significance is extraordinary." He added that OpenClaw arrived "at just the right time to provide what the industry needed."
Huang compared OpenClaw's relationship to AI as being similar to Windows' relationship to personal computers. He also drew parallels with other influential technologies, such as the Linux operating system, the Kubernetes cloud project, and HTML. "This enables the entire industry to leverage this open-source technology stack and use it to accomplish things," Huang noted.
However, Huang pointed out a significant challenge with using OpenClaw, which NVIDIA has been working to address: security. NVIDIA released a derivative version based on OpenClaw called NemoClaw, which allows users to add privacy and security controls for their AI agents, or "claws." "It features network guardrails and privacy routers, so we can protect these claws, prevent them from performing operations within a company, and ensure security," Huang explained.
NVIDIA hosted a "Build a Claw" event at its conference to promote NemoClaw, where attendees could develop their own customized AI agents. "OpenClaw brings people closer to AI and helps create a world where everyone can have their own agent," Steinberger said in a statement released by NVIDIA. "NVIDIA and the broader ecosystem are building the necessary 'claws' and 'guardrails' to enable anyone to create powerful and secure AI assistants."
Huang also announced several other developments at the NVIDIA GTC on Monday, including a new inference system incorporating technology from AI chip startup Groq. NVIDIA had previously entered into a $20 billion deal with Groq. He also predicted that demand for NVIDIA's Blackwell and Rubin AI chips would reach $1 trillion by 2027.
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