OpenClaw Hit 250K GitHub Stars in 60 Days. Jensen Huang Called It 'The Next ChatGPT.' Here's What That Actually Means for Developers.
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OpenClaw Hit 250K GitHub Stars in 60 Days. Jensen Huang Called It "The Next ChatGPT." Here's What That Actually Means for Developers. Three months ago, if you told me an AI framework would rack up 250,000 GitHub stars faster than React, I'd have called bullshit. But here we are. March 2026. OpenClaw - an open-source AI agent framework built by one developer in Austria - just became the fastest-growing repo in GitHub history. NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang stood on stage at GTC 2026 and called it "the next ChatGPT" and "the most popular open-source project in human history." The hype is real.