TL;DR






PicoClaw
OpenClaw




What
Ultra-lightweight Go AI agent
Full-featured TypeScript AI assistant


Origin
Sipeed (hardware co.), Feb 2026
Peter Steinberger, Nov 2025 (ex-Clawdbot)


Language
Go
TypeScript + Swift + Kotlin


RAM
<10MB (20MB with recent features)
>1GB


Startup
<1s (0.6GHz single core)
>500s (0.8GHz) / ~5s...