Huang Renxun calls OpenClaw the "most important software release in history," with downloads surpassing 30 years of Linux accumulation in just 3 weeks

Gate News reports that on March 6, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang highly praised the open-source AI agent OpenClaw at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media, and Telecom Conference on Wednesday (March 5), calling it “possibly the most important software release in history.” He pointed out that it took Linux about 30 years to reach its current level of popularity, but OpenClaw surpassed that in just three weeks, becoming “the most downloaded open-source software in history.” He described the growth curve as still rising vertically on a semi-logarithmic scale, “it looks like the Y-axis, I’ve never seen anything like this.” Huang summarized the past two years of AI development into three inflection points: the first is generative AI, enabling transformation between different forms of information; the second is reasoning ability exemplified by models like GPT-1, which required about 1,000 times more computing power than the previous generation; the third is intelligent agents, with token consumption reaching millions of times higher. He characterized previous prompts as queries (“What is, When, Who is”), while prompts in the era of intelligent agents are actions (“Create, Execute, Build, Write”). “The computing power needed by every company is skyrocketing.” He also proposed the idea that “computing power equals revenue,” citing Anthropic as an example: “If they have three times the computing power, their revenue will grow threefold,” and asserted that computing power is directly related to GDP, stating, “No country in the future will say ‘We choose not to have intelligence.’”