OpenClaw

Meta's personal AI agent Muse attracted more than 500,000 users and 2 million prompts in its first week, topping the US App Store. Meta has acknowledged the product was 'heavily inspired' by open-source project OpenClaw, with nearly identical file names surfacing online.

xAI's Grok Bot lets users connect agents to services like X, Google Calendar, and Freshdesk through a simple browser login instead of API keys or MCP configuration. A five-day hands-on report compares it to OpenClaw 2.0, released the same week, framing the two as a managed agent computer versus a user-owned agent platform.

Microsoft has launched Scout, an AI assistant built on the OpenClaw framework that operates across Microsoft 365. The system requires a GitHub Copilot subscription and includes policy conformance checks with audit trails to address security concerns about autonomous AI agents.

Google announced Gemini Spark, a cloud-based AI agent that runs 24/7 across Gmail, Drive, and 30+ external partners, powered by the upcoming Gemini 3.5 Flash model. The company claims the new model is four times faster and costs less than half of competing frontier models, directly responding to OpenClaw's viral success since November 2025.

Microsoft is testing OpenClaw-style autonomous agents for 365 Copilot that would run continuously to complete tasks on behalf of users, according to The Information. The company plans to demonstrate some features at its Build conference on June 2nd.