Moltbot was the short-lived interim name (January 27–30, 2026) of an Open Source, self-hostable AI agent project that originally started as "Warelay"/"Clawdbot" and was renamed to "Moltbot" just days later due to a trademark conflict with Anthropic (similarity to "Claude"), subsequently becoming "OpenClaw". The software runs locally on your own hardware, connects to messaging platforms such as WhatsApp, Telegram, and Discord, and can additionally perform autonomous tasks like email management, scheduling, and web automation. It is model-agnostic and can be integrated with different AI model providers (e.g., Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, local LLMs). Due to its viral success, numerous unofficial copycat websites emerged, which is why official channels [text incomplete]

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