Open Claw hit 163,000 GitHub stars in days, but most people are setting it up wrong and risking total financial ruin by having their data harvested.
George Zeng from NEAR breaks down why both OpenAI and Anthropic harvest your data, how to run AI agents securely, and why local models cost 90% less.
We cover:
- Why Anthropic's Super Bowl Ads Expose The Real Problem
- Open Claw's Vertical Growth (0 to 163K GitHub Stars)
- The Security Mistakes Everyone's Making
- How To Run AI Agents Without Losing Everything
- Why Local AI Models Are 90% Cheaper Than OpenAI
- NEAR Intents + AI Agents = The Agentic Economy
- When AI Agents Start Teaching Each Other
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:07 George's Background at NEAR
02:15 Anthropic's Super Bowl Commercials
06:02 Data Privacy: The Glass House Problem
09:28 NEAR AI's Privacy-First Approach
13:03 Trezor, Halliday, Infinifi ads
13:45 How Private Chat Works with TEEs
18:16 Claude Bot to Open Claw Journey
22:38 Security Best Practices for Open Claw
25:47 Setting Up Open Claw with NEAR AI
29:15 YEET, Kalshi, Hibachi ads
29:41 NEAR Intents + AI Agents = Magic
34:18 George's Daily AI Agent Workflow
37:04 The Case for Local-First AI
42:21 AI Agents Creating Other AI Agents
45:03 Memory & Context Management
45:44 NEAR Token's Role in AI Infrastructure
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