Alibaba Open-Sources CoPaw: Personal Agent Workstation with Multi-Channel Workflows and Persistent Memory
The open-source personal agent space just got a serious new contender. Alibaba’s research team quietly dropped CoPaw at the end of February — an open-source framework for deploying self-hosted AI agents that runs entirely on your own hardware, supports local models, and integrates directly with Discord, iMessage, DingTalk, and Feishu out of the box. If you’ve been following the OpenClaw community, the concept will feel familiar. But CoPaw brings a distinctly different design philosophy: it’s built from the ground up for portability and model-agnosticism, with equal-class support for local inference (via llama.cpp or Apple MLX) and remote APIs. ...