Nvidia today announced the Nvidia NemoClaw stack for the OpenClaw agent platform — adding privacy and security controls to make self-evolving, autonomous AI agents, or claws, more trustworthy, scalable and accessible to the world.
OpenClaw is an open-source AI agent framework that runs locally on your computer and gives AI models the ability to take actions on your behalf. It is taking off because it transforms AI from a passive chatbot into an active, autonomous “digital employee” that can operate your system. It has also become popular in both crypto and mainstream tech communities. NemoClaw lets users install Nvidia Nemotron models and the newly announced Nvidia OpenShell runtime in a single command.
Nvidia announced the news during the GTC keynote by CEO Jensen Huang at the company’s GTC event on Monday in San Jose, California.
“OpenClaw opened the next frontier of AI to everyone and became the fastest-growing open source project in history,” said Huang, in a statement. “Mac and Windows are the operating systems for the personal computer. OpenClaw is the operating system for personal AI. This is the moment the industry has been waiting for — the beginning of a new renaissance in software.”
The significance of OpenClaw
“In the past, we’ve discussed that an agent is an AI system that can understand a goal, plan the steps to get there and take action to complete the work,” said Kari Briski, vice president of generative AI software for enterprise at Nvidia, in a press briefing. “The LLM is just a piece of the agent. Agents spin up subagents that have skills delegate specialized tasks, access local file systems and bring it all together toward a single objective.”
Briski added, “As AI agents run skills, they must execute code and secure sandboxes without compromising the host they are on. As task complexity grows, agents need new ways to extend their working memory that allows them to maintain context across many steps and tool calls.”
And she added, “So what’s changed? OpenClaw is likely the single most important software release in history, and it’s taking the world by storm. OpenClaw as an orchestration framework for long running, self evolving agents, or what we now call claws.”
She said claws are autonomous agents that can plan act execute tasks on their own, and they’ve gone from just thinking and executing on tasks to achieving entire missions.
“We used to prompt with what, how or why, but for claws now we prompt with build, create or make. Claws are the new application layer for AI,” Briski said.
NemoClaw uses Nvidia Agent Toolkit software to optimize OpenClaw in a single
command. It installs OpenShell to provide open models and an isolated sandbox
that adds data privacy and security to autonomous agents. This provides the
missing infrastructure layer beneath claws to give them the access they need to be
productive, while enforcing policy-based security, network and privacy guardrails.
NemoClaw uses any coding agent. With open agents, it can tap open models —
including Nvidia Nemotron — running locally on the user’s dedicated system. Using a privacy router, agents can use frontier models running in the cloud. This combination of local and cloud models provides a foundation for agents to develop and learn new skills to complete tasks according to defined privacy and security guardrails.
Always-on agents need dedicated computing to build software and tools, and
complete tasks. NemoClaw for OpenClaw can run on any dedicated platform —
including dedicated Nvidia GeForce RTX PCs and laptops or Nvidia RTX Pro-powered workstations, as well as Nvidia DGX Station and Nvidia DGX Spark supercomputers — to provide local computing for autonomous agents to run around the clock.
GTC attendees can stop by Nvidia’s build-a-claw event in the GTC Park March 16-
19 — 1-5 p.m. on Monday, and 8 a.m.-5 p.m. on Tuesday through Thursday — to
customize and deploy a proactive, always-on AI assistant with NemoClaw for
OpenClaw.