The battle over the explosive path of open source intelligent agents: OpenClaw batch competitors are driven by VC, Hermes accuses opponents of taking money to do things According to Beating monitoring, due to a download data, the two camps of open-source intelligent agents have openly torn each other apart on social media platforms. Peter Steinberger, the father of OpenClaw, stated in a post reposting OpenClaw's weekly NPM download record that OpenClaw has transformed into a non-profit foundation to improve quality, while competitors are aided by venture capital and have ulterior motives. The related remarks were quickly met with a public backlash from Teknium, co-founder of Nous Research. Teknium sarcastically criticized OpenAI's non-profit label, stating that although Steinberger was acting in the name of a non-profit, he was actually executing a business agenda by receiving millions of dollars in VC compensation indirectly distributed by OpenAI. Behind the divergence lies the vastly different funding backgrounds of the two frameworks. Although OpenClaw has been restructured as an independent non-profit foundation, it has always received funding and token sponsorship from OpenAI, and its founder Steinberger has also joined OpenAI; Nous Research, which developed the mainstream competitor Hermes Agent, relies on venture capital support. On that day, Nous Research announced that Hermes Agent had surpassed 200000 stars on GitHub. Earlier, OpenClaw quickly gained 380000 stars with the Mac mini deployment boom, but recently the community has frequently complained about crashes after system updates. Hermes Agent, which performs more stably in coding and multi-agent collaboration, is attracting many developers to switch camps. [Original link]