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OpenClaw gives you the car AND the mechanic built in

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“With Open Cloud, you get a car and the mechanic built in.”

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if, with Chat QPT or Cloud, you get a car. With Open Cloud, you get a car and the mechanic built in. Taking that analogy, basically you can extract it out or extract it out to everything that I do. What I do with models is we have, have it set up both locally and have an OpenClaw agent, dedicated to this, where we're actually taking the workloads we have and automatically running evals on them. So evaluations, where we're evaluating the AI. The AI is evaluating the AI on those jobs in order to get to a spot where it can be either efficient or the right quality

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A founder explains how OpenClaw differs from ChatGPT and Claude by providing not just AI capabilities, but built-in evaluation and optimization tools. He describes using OpenClaw agents to automatically run evaluations on AI workloads, creating a system where AI evaluates AI performance to optimize for efficiency and quality.

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Provides a concrete technical approach to AI model evaluation and optimization that other founders could implement.

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