By Isabelle Bousquette and Steven Rosenbush
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang unveiled a new software tool kit Monday that helps businesses more safely build and run autonomous agents with the popular OpenClaw platform.
"Every company in the world today needs to have an OpenClaw strategy," Huang said in his keynote at Nvidia's annual GTC conference. "This is the new computer."
Using OpenClaw, developers can build autonomous agents, or "claws," that can plan and execute tasks on their own, and, critically, spin up their own subagents that can tackle specialized tasks, access local file systems, and themselves delegate.
Developers have quickly become obsessed with it -- in part because of a project called Moltbook that acted as a social-media site exclusively for claws -- but the tech doesn't come without risks. For OpenClaw to work as a true personal assistant, it must have access to all of a user's data and systems. When agents go rogue, they can tamper with or delete valuable files.
"There's a lot of stories about people just getting OpenClaw and saying, 'Hey, here's my email access,' right? And then 'oh, no, it hallucinated and deleted all my emails' or worse," said CrowdStrike Chief Technology Officer Elia Zaitsev. In some cases, claws can even be tricked into giving away a user's password or credit card details, he added.
Nvidia wants to start bridging that gap with NemoClaw, a software tool kit designed to help claws run safely in an enterprise context, via a contained virtual environment.
"It's the missing infrastructure layer beneath," said Kari Briski, Nvidia's vice president of generative AI software for enterprise. "We're working with OpenClaw builder Peter Steinberger to make self-certified agents, or claws, more trustworthy, scalable, and accessible to the world," she added.
"Now it's enterprise ready," Huang said.
Nvidia's annual developer conference, which is expected to draw 30,000 attendees, has become a barometer for artificial-intelligence appetite and adoption. Huang said Nvidia expected to sell $1 trillion of its Blackwell and Rubin AI chips by the end of 2027.
Write to Isabelle Bousquette at isabelle.bousquette@wsj.com and Steven Rosenbush at steven.rosenbush@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
March 16, 2026 18:53 ET (22:53 GMT)
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