Latent Space: The Two Sides of OpenClaw — 500K Daily Downloads, But VCs Say 'Killing OpenClaw Is the Number One Goal'

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Latent Space's latest AINews reflects on OpenClaw's meteoric rise and the growing competitive pressure against it. The open-source agent is now downloaded 500K times/day and has added video/music generation, cloud-backed LanceDB memory, and Claude Opus 4.7 defaults. But VC Jason Calacanis stated that 'killing OpenClaw is the number one goal' in the LLM space. Meanwhile, Anthropic removed OpenClaw access from standard Claude subscriptions, shifting to pay-as-you-go due to compute demands. April 2026 is the most consequential month for AI agents since the category emerged.