Moltbot Is Taking Over Silicon Valley
Then Peguine, a tech entrepreneur and marketing consultant based in Lisbon, shows a precocious, lobster theme AI assistant called Moltbot run much of his life.
Peguine, a self-proclaimed early adopter and trendspotter, discovered Moltbot several weeks ago—then it was Clawdbot—after discussing a vibe-coding side project with friends on WhatsApp. He installed it on his computer, connected it to numerous apps and online accounts, including Google Apps, and was amazed by how capable it was.
“I tried it, got interested, and then really became obsessed,” says Peguine. “I could basically automate everything. It was magical.”
Moltbot makes regular AI assistants, like Siri and Alexa, strange. The AI assistant is designed to run constantly on a user's computer and communicate with various AI models, applications and online services to get things done. Users can chat with it via WhatsApp, Telegram, or any other chat app. While normal assistants are limited in the questions they can answer and the tasks they can perform, Moltbot can do an almost unlimited range of tasks using different apps, coding and using the web.
Peguine has his Moltbot, named “Pokey”, give him morning briefings, organize his work day to maximize productivity, arrange meetings, manage calendar conflicts and handle invoices. Pokey even alerts him and his wife when his kids have an upcoming test or homework.
Peguine is just one of many new Moltbot apprentices. The AI assistant has blown up on social media in recent days as developers, business types and tech enthusiasts discovered its impressive powers of organization, automation and all-round helpfulness.
“It's the first time I've felt like I'm living in the future since the launch of ChatGPT,” explained Dave Morinanother Moltbot fan, on X.
“It gives the same kick as when we first saw the power of ChatGPT, DeepSeek and Claude Code,” wrote Abhishek Katiyar, an X user who says he works at Amazon. “You realize that a fundamental shift is happening.”
“The future is here,” was a common refrain under the Moltbot pills.
Although agent is AI notoriously imperfect, some Moltbot fanboys apparently automate high-stakes stuff.
André Foeken, CTO of a healthcare company in the Netherlands, says he gave Moltbot his credit card details and Amazon login, then sent a message to buy things for him. “I was scanning my messages and the car ordered some stuff. That's both cool and the reason I turned off the scanning of messages 🤣,” Feken told WIRED in a message. Other users posted screenshots of Moltbot conducting research and issuing trading advice.
Moltbot fandom reached such dizzying heights in recent days that the idea of buying a Mac Mini to run the new assistant soon became in memewith users joking about deploying the assistant in increasingly absurd ways. Interestingly, interest in Moltbot apparently triggered a rally in the stock price for Cloudflare, even though it has no connection with the company.
Lobster origin
Mottle bot was released by independent developer Peter Steinberger as Clawdbot last November. (He rebranded it this week at the request of Anthropic, which offers several artificial intelligence called models Claude.)
Steinberger says he started building Moltbot as an experimental way to feed images and other files into coding models. He realized he was onto something bigger when he tried to send a voice memo into his proto-assistant and was shocked to see it type a reply back at him.
“I wrote, 'How did you do that?'” Steinberger says. His tool explained that it had inspected the file, recognized it as an audio format, and found a key on his computer that could be used to access an OpenAI voice transcription service called Whisper. It then converted it to text and read it. “That was the moment I was, holy shit,” he says. “Those models are really creative when you give them the power.”
