Clawdbot: The Self-Hosted AI Assistant Gaining Ground as a Privacy-First Alternative

An open-source, self-hosted AI assistant called Clawdbot is drawing serious endorsements from developers who want Claude-level intelligence without handing their data to a third party.

A growing cohort of developers is rallying around Clawdbot, an open-source AI assistant that can be self-hosted and connected to Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, and Slack. As @alex_prompter described it, the tool gives individuals and teams a privacy-focused, customizable alternative to proprietary chatbots — one that runs on your own hardware and uses Claude as its underlying model.

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