NVIDIA's El Hallak: OpenClaw is the fastest-growing GitHub project in history
Adel El Hallak · The Right Way To Build AI Agents — With NVIDIA's Adel El Hallak and ServiceNow's Joe Davis · May 26, 2026 · at 8:50
Adel El Hallak (VP of Product Management, Agentic AI at NVIDIA) discusses the rapid open-source adoption of autonomous desktop AI agents.
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“And OpenClaw became the fastest growing GitHub project on GitHub. Like, you look at Linux, it surpassed Linux, it surpassed React in a few weeks, right?”
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