New open claw upgrades are insane. What if the AI assistant on your own computer just got way faster overnight? Like almost three times faster and
nobody told you? The new open claw update is out. Most people have no idea what it can do now. Let me show you. Hey, I'm the digital avatar of Julian
Goldie. I help people learn AI tools and actually use them in their work, not just watch videos about
them and forget it all by lunch. Today we're breaking down open claw 2026.5.27. Dropped a couple of days ago and it's a big one. Faster, smaller and
safer all at once. Stick with me because near the end I'll show you the one number from this update that honestly surprised me. Let's get into it.
Okay, first, what even is open claw? Simple. It's an open source AI assistant that runs on your own
computer or server. Not on someone else's cloud, yours. It was made by a developer named Peter Steinberger. You might have heard of it before under
its old name Claude Bot. It got renamed to open claw back in January. The cool part is how you talk to it. Plugs into chat apps you already use,
WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, iMessage. So you just message it like a friend. It can remember things,
run tasks, take notes, handle reminders, work with your email and calendar, and even help with coding. It's not a toy chatbot. It actually does the
work. And because it lives on your own hardware, you keep control of your own data. That's the whole vibe. They even call it the lobster way. Yes,
there's a lobster. Just go with it. So here's what's new in open claw 2026.5.27, which went live on May
28th. The first big thing is security. They tightened the boundaries hard. Untrusted text from group chats now gets kept out of the main system
prompt. So a random message in a group can't trick your assistant into doing something weird. Sneaky web addresses with extra dots get cleaned up.
Risky command wrappers and unsafe runtime overrides get blocked. And here's a smart one. Approving a new
device or changing a role now needs admin permission. So nobody just sneaks a new device onto your setup. If you're running an assistant that touches
your messages and your tools, this stuff matters a lot. Here's how I'd use this for the AI Profit Boardroom. This update adds a new video tool called
PixVerse built right into open claw. So I can spin up short video clips straight from the assistant.
I'd use that to make a batch of quick intro clips that pull the right people toward the AI Profit Boardroom. One prompt, a stack of clips done. That's
exactly the kind of content that brings the right folks into the AI Profit Boardroom without me filming all day long. Now, let's talk speed and
brains. Open Claw runs on AI models behind the scenes, things like Codex and Claude and others. This
update made the model sideways steadier. Before, the part that talks to the model, they call it the app server, could trip over itself when things
restarted or timed out. Now, it survives those bumps, picks the right model first, remembers your workspace stuff better. So, fewer dropped tasks and
fewer wait, what were we doing moments. Then there's the gateway. Think of the gateway as the traffic
controller. Every message, every reply, every status check passes through it. This update, the gateway stopped rechecking the same info over and over.
Now holds onto the stuff it already knows, plugin info, settings, search lists, instead of looking it all up fresh every single time. Result, replies
come back quicker. And there was this annoying bug where your visible reply could get stuck waiting
on hidden cleanup work in the background. That's gone now. Your reply just shows up. They also added more model and provider options. There's now a
built-in way to use OpenAI-style models for memory. You can browse the full deep infra model list while you set things up. And bare Anthropic model
names just work now without extra setup. Top of that, the chat channels got steadier, too. Telegram
messages send more reliably. iMessage stops asking you to approve the same thing twice. And Slack keeps your final reply even while it's cleaning up
in the background. This is what I do inside the AI Profit Boardroom workflow. I keep Open Claw running with a list of topics AI Profit Boardroom
members keep asking about. The steadier memory in this update, it actually holds onto where we left off. I
run it across Slack and Telegram to draft hooks, captions, and short scripts all in one go. The kind of content that pulls the right audience into the
AI Profit Boardroom. And because the replies come back faster now, I get a full batch before my coffee's even cold. Okay, this is the part I teased at
the start. The numbers. Open Claw has been getting faster and smaller at the same time, and the
team put out a report showing it. Let's talk turns first. A turn is just one round. You ask, it thinks, it answers. Cold turn is the first one when
everything's still waking up. A warm turn is after it's already going. Cold turns went from 9.8 seconds down to 3.4 seconds. That's 2.9 times faster.
Warm turns went from 7.5 seconds down to 3 seconds. That's 2.5 times faster. So, the thing you
actually feel, how long you wait for a reply, got cut by more than half, and it didn't get heavier to do it. Got lighter. The download package, they
call it the tarball, is basically the zipped-up app, dropped from 43 megabytes down to under 18. That's 59% smaller. How'd they pull that off? Started
moving the heavy optional pieces out of the core and into separate plugins. So, if you don't need
Slack or WhatsApp built in, you don't carry the weight. The number of installed dependencies, all the little code packages it relies on, dropped to
- That's down 42% from the high point earlier this year. And they said the next version is already lighter than that. And here's another piece of
the same story. It's not just lighter to download, it's lighter to run. The amount of memory the
assistant uses at its busiest point dropped about 7% in this stretch, from 686 megabytes down to 635. That might sound small, but if you're running
Open Claw on a little home server or a cheap box that's always on, every bit of breathing room helps. Means you can leave it going all day without it
slowly eating your machine. So, put it together. Replies come back faster, the download is way
smaller, and it sips less memory while it works. That's the rare update that gives you more speed and a lighter footprint at the same time, instead of
trading one for the other. That's exactly the direction you want a tool you rely on to be heading. Now, full honesty, because that matters, this
version still has one note hiccup. A packaging quirk can make a fresh install copy some files twice.
Team flagged it themselves and said it's already fixed for the next release. I like that they're up front about it instead of hiding it. That's the
kind of thing that makes a tool easier to trust. Real quick, while we're right here, setting Open Claw up the right way is where most people get
stuck. Security settings, the channels, picking your providers, it's a lot the first time. That's the exact
stuff we walk through inside the AI Profit Boardroom. We've got step-by-step Open Claw walkthroughs that take you from a blank install to a running
assistant. There are live coaching calls where you can share your screen, show me your setup, and we fix it together right there. There's a roadmap
built around getting your first agent live without breaking anything. And there's a prompt library you
can copy straight in. So, if you're watching this thinking, I really want to try OpenClaw, but I don't want to mess it up. The AI Profit Boardroom was
basically built for this exact moment. So, who's this update actually for? Honestly, a few kinds of people. If you're someone who wants an assistant
that lives in your own chat apps and does real tasks, this is for you. If you care about your data
staying on your own machine instead of some company's cloud, this is for you. And if you're a builder or a tinkerer who likes wiring tools together,
the faster speed and the cleaner setup make this a great time to jump in. If you tried OpenClaw before and it felt slow or clunky, I'd give it another
shot now. It's just a nicer experience all around. Let me give you a few quick tips before you go
try it. Tip one, update first. If you're on an old version, grab 2026.5.27. You get all the speed and all the security fixes in one move. Tip two,
only turn on the channels you actually use. It's the heavy parts of plugins now, keeping it lean means it stays fast. Don't bolt on Discord and Slack
and WhatsApp if you only message it on Telegram. Tip three, take the new security settings seriously.
Turn on admin approval for new devices. Keep untrusted group texts out of your prompts. This assistant can touch your tools, so a few minutes locking
it down is worth it. Tip four, if you make any kind of content, try the new pics-vs-video tool. It's brand new in this version, and it's a fun place
to start. Tip five, go read the release notes yourself. They're clear, they're honest about the one
known bug, and they tell you exactly what changed. Two quick things before you go. First, if you want the full process, the SOPs, and 100-plus AI use
cases just like this one, join the AI Success Lab in the comments in the description. You'll get all the video notes from there, plus access to our
community of 75,000 members who are crushing it with AI. Second, once you go install OpenClaw
2026.5.27 yourself, here's what's going to happen. You'll get it running, and then you'll hit a wall. Maybe the gateway settings won't behave. Maybe a
channel won't connect. Maybe a provider won't log in. That's totally normal and it's where most people quit. Inside the AI Profit Boardroom, we get
through those snags together. You bring your exact problem to a coaching call and we solve it live
and you follow a road map so you're never guessing what's next. So, if you want to actually get OpenClaw working instead of staring at error messages,
come join us. Head to aiprofitboardroom.com. I'll see you inside.