Nvidia turns OpenClaw into an enterprise platform with NemoClaw

A single command now installs security, privacy guardrails, and local AI models on the world’s fastest-growing open-source agent platform.

OpenClaw launched on 25 January 2026. Austrian developer Peter Steinberger says he built the first version in roughly an hour. Within weeks it had become one of the fastest-growing open-source repositories in GitHub history, an AI agent that anyone could run locally, capable of organising files, writing code, and browsing the web without routing data through a cloud. That kind of unchaperoned access was, for enterprise IT teams, both the point and the problem.

Nvidia’s answer arrived on Monday at its annual GTC developer conference in San Jose. The company announced NemoClaw, a stack that installs onto OpenClaw in a single command, adding the privacy and security infrastructure that enterprises need before they can trust an autonomous agent with production data.

The core component is OpenShell, a new open-source ...