Limitless: An AI Podcast THIS WEEK IN AI: NVIDIA's OpenClaw Killer, Meta Buys Moltbook, Perplexity Computer
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Mar 13, 2026 Discussion of NVIDIA's big push with NemoClaw and the race to build robust AI agents. Conversation about Perplexity turning agents into personal desktop computers that automate UI tasks. Debate over Meta buying Maltbook and the risks of agent-only social spaces. Coverage of multimodal advances from Google and real-world robot and bio-robotic demos raising deployment and ethics questions.
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Perplexity Personal Computer Uses Existing Models For Agents
- Perplexity launched Personal Computer to orchestrate external models (Claude, ChatGPT) as desktop agents that move your mouse and run parallel tasks.
- Josh Kale notes it packages existing frontier models into agentic UIs that mimic OpenClaw features without owning a base model.
Expect Paid Services To Manage Agent Complexity
- Expect high demand for turnkey agent setups and paid services that secure and manage them.
- Josh Kale notes people are paying ~$6,000 for in-person OpenClaw installs to avoid security risks and get management guarantees.
Digital Optimus Couples Cheap Tesla Chips With Grok
- XAI and Tesla's Digital Optimus aims to pair Tesla's low-cost AI4 inference hardware with Grok as a 'system two' brain to emulate human computer tasks.
- Ajaz highlights running on $650 AI4 chips in vehicles could make digital agents cheap at scale.