Clawdbot: the Mac-mini sell-out that Siri sees as its mirror
Clawdbot open-source AI assistant sparks Mac mini sell-out; self-host your own proactive agent
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Overnight, Mac mini orders exploded, even catching Apple’s sales department off guard.
There was no product launch event, and the Lunar New Year price cuts seemed to only feature the iPhone Air with major discounts. Yet discussions about the Mac mini suddenly and mysteriously skyrocketed across major social media platforms. If you open X or Reddit, you’ll find Mac mini order screenshots and various memes everywhere.
Even Logan Kilpatrick, the head of Google AI Studio, posted on X saying, “I’ve already ordered a Mac mini.”
But can you believe that what drove internet users to frantically open their wallets was just an open-source project called Clawdbot that suddenly went viral on GitHub? This is a self-deployed AI assistant project, and simply because online guides all say that using a Mac mini to build it is the best choice, the Mac mini became popular just like that.
It must be said that this year has started with an unprecedented explosion of various AI products. First, there was Claude Cowork, which garnered 48 million views and catalyzed the viral popularity of Skills and Claude Code—X’s information feed was filled with tutorials about them.
Now comes Clawdbot, claiming to be a true AI personal assistant that can run on your own device. Then its GitHub star count suddenly skyrocketed in these past few days, from five thousand to twenty thousand—something quite rare among open-source projects.
Some netizens posted memes saying that their 2026 had just begun and they’ve already been “possessed” by these things, wondering when such days would end.
