This article is originally from the DataLearnerAI official blog:
https://www.datalearner.com/blog/1051771167197865
Just now, Moonshot AI (the Kimi team) launched Kimi Claw (currently in Beta). This service allows regular users to quickly obtain a cloud-based AI assistant similar to OpenClaw without local installation or server maintenance, staying online 24/7 with long-term memory and practical execution capabilities.
Background: What is OpenClaw?
While many people may already know about OpenClaw, let me briefly introduce it here. OpenClaw (originally Clawdbot, briefly renamed Moltbot) is an open-source, local-first personal AI agent created by developer Peter Steinberger and open-sourced in November 2025. It's not an ordinary chatbot, but an AI assistant that can actually "get things done" - you chat with it through common messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, and Slack, and it can perform real operations on your computer.
Unlike ordinary chatbots, OpenClaw's highlights are persistent memory (remembering long-term conversations and user preferences) and proactive execution (capable of running scheduled or conditional tasks in the background). Its community is very active, where developers can write their own skills or use ready-made skills contributed by others. Currently, ClawHub (OpenClaw's skill repository) has over 5,700 community skills, covering various scenarios from simple reminders to complex workflows.
OpenClaw is one of the fastest-growing open-source AI projects in recent years: GitHub currently shows 196k stars, 33.9k forks, and 609 contributors. It took only a few days to reach 100,000 stars from launch, with weekly visits reaching 2 million at its peak, making it the fastest-growing AI project in GitHub history. However, OpenClaw's biggest drawback is the need for an always-online PC or server, and the installation and configuration process has a certain learning curve, which is not easy for many people.
Kimi Claw's purpose is to simplify this open-source project into a "one-click ready" cloud service, where users don't need to set up the environment themselves - Moonshot deploys it for you directly in the cloud.
Main Features and Highlights of Kimi Claw
This Kimi Claw release by Kimi should be the first among large language model companies to specifically launch such a product. Previously, most such services were offered by cloud providers, requiring users to have cloud service accounts and purchase and deploy through methods similar to buying servers. Kimi Claw, on the other hand, is pretty much ready to use out of the box. Its main features include:
- One-Click Cloud Deployment: Complete deployment in seconds on the Kimi platform, with the assistant online 24/7, no need to keep your local computer running, with 40GB of storage space by default.
- Uses Kimi K2.5 Model by Default: Built-in K2.5 model from Moonshot, supporting strong reasoning, multimodal, and tool-calling capabilities.
- Integrated ClawHub Community Skills: Direct access to OpenClaw's ClawHub, with over 5,000 community-contributed skills available, greatly expanding the assistant's practical capabilities (such as automated email processing, browser operations, specific application integrations, etc.).
- Long-term Memory and Cross-platform Interaction: Remembers conversation history and personal settings, supports chatting anytime through the Kimi interface or messaging apps like Telegram and Discord.
- Automated Task Execution: Can set up scheduled reminders, condition-triggered operations, or complete multi-step workflows in the background.
Overall, it lowers the barrier to using OpenClaw, making it suitable for users who don't want to deal with local environment setup and want an always-online personal assistant. One of its notable features is that it already integrates relevant chat applications and skills published by the community, so there should be no barrier to getting a powerful OpenClaw experience.
Kimi Claw Requires Paid Subscription
Currently, Kimi Claw is in Beta and is a paid feature. It doesn't require separate payment but requires you to be a Kimi subscriber at the $39 tier or above.
Using it is very simple (domestic users in China may not be able to access it; requires the international version of Kimi): Visit https://www.kimi.com/bot, find and click the "One-Click Create Kimi Claw" entry, and the system will automatically deploy an instance in the cloud, completing within seconds. Here's a screenshot of it in use:
How should I put it - it feels like it's missing a bit of the OpenClaw vibe, but functionally there should be no difference, or it might even be stronger.
Simple Summary
Overall, Kimi Claw has greatly simplified the barrier to using OpenClaw. If you already use OpenClaw for tasks, or want similar capabilities, this should be a very worthwhile product to use. After all, in addition to Kimi Claw itself, you also get plenty of Kimi's official usage quota, as well as services like Claude Code, PPT generation, and more. It's quite a good deal!