The article is forgetting about Anthropic which currently has the best agentic programmer and was the backbone for the recent OpenClaw assistants.

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gpm 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Also Mistral, which is definitely building AI assistants even if they aren't quite as successful so far.

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ajuhasz 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

True, we focused on hardware embodied AI assistants (smart speakers, smart glasses, etc) as those are the ones we believe will soon start leaving wake words behind and moving towards an always-on interaction design. The privacy implications of an always-listening smart speaker are magnitudes higher than OpenClaw that you intentionally interact with.

	▲	popalchemist 7 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Both are pandoras box. Open Claw has access to your credit cards, social media accounts, etc by default (i.e. if you have them saved in your browser on the account that Open Claw runs on, which most people do.)
	▲	iugtmkbdfil834 9 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		This. Kids already have tons of those gadgets on. Previously, I only really had to worry about a cell phone so even if someone was visiting, it was a simple case of plop all electronics here, but now with glasses I am not even sure how to reasonably approach this short of not allowing it period. Eh, brave new world.