“888 KiB Assistant” but the assistant itself is a multi terabyte rental-only model stored in some mysterious data center.
amelius 2 hours ago [-]
I'm getting "serverless" flashbacks.
kristianpaul 45 minutes ago [-]
My model is at home... just 16Gb still a lot but just FYI
Rebelgecko 59 minutes ago [-]
It seems to support connecting to your own LLM on the same LAN
0xbadcafebee 21 minutes ago [-]
For people who don't get this: it's a Home Assistant type thing. You don't do inference on it, you send it a message on Telegram and it does things with physical things through GPIO. You could use a $140 Raspberry Pi with 8GB RAM and host a local model on it plugged into 30W AC power... or you could use a $10 ESP32 which can run for weeks on a tiny battery, and your existing Wifi connection with a cheap cloud model (cloud models are as cheap as $0.02/1MTokens). This makes it easier to ramp up on new ESP32 projects. You can just tell it to do things / give you info, rather than having to write code.
amelius 2 hours ago [-]
Me: "GPIO 5 can be active for a maximum of 100ms, then it needs to cool down for at least 1s. Otherwise the MOSFET is fried."
Zclaw: "GPIO 5 is active now, however the server is not responding so I'm awaiting further instructions."
Retr0id 15 minutes ago [-]
888KiB is quite large, but I see they're including the whole rest of the firmware in that number, fair enough. Their actual application code weighs only 35,742 bytes, compiled.
wartywhoa23 34 minutes ago [-]
Still lightyears from a one-bit AI assistant. Send 1 to save the humankind, 0 to exterminate. And hurry up because it's in undefined state right now!
cwoodyard 24 minutes ago [-]
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gas9S9zw3P9c 2 hours ago [-]
I fail to understand why 888 KiB matters if it's just a wrapper around a cloud api.
ramon156 2 hours ago [-]
Have you seen OpenClaw's codebase? 680.000 LOC.
I care how big it is.
Rebelgecko 57 minutes ago [-]
A lot of the *claws emphasize binary size and lines of code. I think for better or worse people treat codebase size as a proxy for "how much of the project is unsupervised, unmaintainable, buggy AI slop?"
mihaelm 2 hours ago [-]
Because of resource-constrained environments, the primary deployment target seem to be microcontrollers. You can get ESP32 boards for pretty cheap.
renewiltord 2 hours ago [-]
Because it means you can run it on an ESP32 which is a low power microprocessor package.
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hidelooktropic 2 hours ago [-]
There are many concerns and areas for improvement with open claw and other similar projects (continuous loop script with broad OS access that manages your agents and interfaces with a standard messaging app)
However, file size I have never seen on that list. I would rather offer for something that is even bigger in file size so it afford certain functionality like better security tighter permissions however it would do that.
Everything runs in containers (I run it on a server along with everything else), plugins have a permission system so eg the AI can read emails but not delete or send, etc.
I really like it, I run it as my main agent and it has been extremely helpful.
mihaelm 2 hours ago [-]
File size is a legit property to keep in mind if your goal is to create an agent that runs on ESP32 boards. They don't expect you to run Zclaw on Mac Mini.
allthetime 1 hours ago [-]
What's the use case for running this on a tiny board? Isn't the whole point that it can use your computer for you?
mihaelm 47 minutes ago [-]
For something like OpenClaw yes, but not for Zclaw. I think the naming is more about riding the current wave of Claw-related interest rather than positioning it as competition or replacement for other clawies.
Zclaw is about running an agent in your embedded system.
markstos 48 minutes ago [-]
The examples seem to suggest it would be chatting with your home automation in natural language.
fc417fc802 8 minutes ago [-]
Before you know it your smart thermostat will be blogging. The joke is on everyone who thought IoT couldn't get any worse. Just imagine the new landscape of security vulnerabilities this opens up.
markstos 4 minutes ago [-]
My "smart" gas stove can be turned on over the internet (if I allow it to connect)—perfect appliance to put an LLM in charge of.
jesse_dot_id 2 hours ago [-]
Clicked on this expecting to see a crontab file.
giancarlostoro 2 hours ago [-]
The domain crashed and burned or something, hopefully this link is correct:
There is the same divide starting to form that NFTs had back in the day. Tech bros instantly like if something has claw in the name, the rest of us will dismiss anything with that naming and philosophy as toxic slop culture. will be interesting to see how far this one will go.
Zclaw: "GPIO 5 is active now, however the server is not responding so I'm awaiting further instructions."
I care how big it is.
However, file size I have never seen on that list. I would rather offer for something that is even bigger in file size so it afford certain functionality like better security tighter permissions however it would do that.
https://github.com/skorokithakis/stavrobot
Everything runs in containers (I run it on a server along with everything else), plugins have a permission system so eg the AI can read emails but not delete or send, etc.
I really like it, I run it as my main agent and it has been extremely helpful.
Zclaw is about running an agent in your embedded system.
https://github.com/tnm/zclaw
https://phantom.com/tokens/solana/GzqSGShBevWmjSW3zwe8RmtUzb...