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Today’s show:

It’s the Age of Ultron at TWiST and LAUNCH. We’ve given our OpenClaw digital Replicants the keys to all of our systems and we’re seeing how much of our jobs they can really do when left to their own devices.

Producer Oliver stops by the show to give us a peek behind the curtain, at the new control panel and dashboard OpenClaw built FOR ITSELF (with a bit of human assistance).

PLUS we’re joined by Alex Cheema of ExoLabs. His company helps everyday consumers run powerful frontier LLMs on their own devices, essential to protect your data and personalize your AI experience.

ALSO congratulations to Ryan Yanneli from NextVisit on winning our Gamma Pitch Deck Competition! He walks away with $25K from LAUNCH and our friends at Gamma.

Timestamps:

(00:00) Introducing Alex Cheema to the show

(3:17) Why it is so important to run AI on local hardware

(6:58) Using OpenClaw Producer to automate TWiST

(8:59) How to Train your AI

(11:58) What is a Chron Job? (Hint: chron means chronological)

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(17:53) OpenClaw managing the LAUNCH/TWiST team

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(20:58) Turning AI into Ultron, self optimization

(27:21) The Future: frontier models: running on your Iphone!

(28:37) Prompt injections: how people can hack your OpenClaw

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(31:31) OpenClaw invites guests that join the show

(40:29) Oliver shows off OpenClaw mission control dashboard

(46:30) Stacking Apple Silicon vs. Running Kimi-K

(50:18) How Exo Labs works — stringing together Mac Silicon

(54:29) Ryan from Nextvisit wins Gamma Pitch Competition

(59:10) Industry Season 4 reflects tech regulation

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