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Chipmaker Nvidia is preparing to launch its own open source AI agent platform to compete with the likes of OpenClaw, according to a recent Wired report.

The magazine cites “people familiar with the company’s plans” in reporting that Nvidia has been pitching the platform, which it is calling NemoClaw, to various corporate partners ahead of its annual developer conference next week. Salesforce, Cisco, Google, Adobe, and CrowdStrike are among the companies said to be in talks for those partnerships, though it’s unclear what specific benefits those companies would receive for their association with the open source tool.

NemoClaw, as the somewhat awkward name suggests, would be a direct competitor of OpenClaw (previously known as Moltbot and Clawdbot), the system that attracted widespread attention in January for letting users direct “always-on” AI agents from their personal machines, using any number of underlying models. Last month, OpenAI hired OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger “to drive the next generation of personal agents,” as founder Sam Altman put it, though the OpenClaw project will be run by an independent foundation with OpenAI’s support.

Earlier this month, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC that OpenClaw was “the most important software release probably ever.” And the sudden interest in OpenClaw has seemingly driven a run on Mac Mini hardware with unified memory that’s well-suited to running the tool.

Wired reports that Nvidia plans “security and privacy tools” for its own NemoClaw platform. That will seemingly be a necessary step in establishing confidence with corporate partners, given the widespread security issues that arise when users grant OpenClaw unfettered access to their data.

NemoClaw will reportedly run on machines without Nvidia’s own GPUs. But as the maker of the GPUs that power the vast majority of underlying AI models, Nvidia stands to benefit from increased adoption of tools like NemoClaw that allow AI agents to plug away at a project for hours or even days at a time.

With other companies developing chips and models that get around Nvidia’s control of the AI hardware market, the company’s close involvement with NemoClaw could also help it direct potential corporate AI partners toward its own hardware and services.

Nvidia reportedly recently halted production of its H200 AI chips intended for the Chinese market after China made moves to curb the imports in favor of locally manufactured chips.