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“Linux took, right, some 30 years to reach this level. OpenClaw, in three weeks, has now surpassed it.” That quote came from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media, and Telecom Conference on March 4. It didn’t get the headlines it deserved at the time — but today’s Meta-Moltbook acquisition makes it impossible to ignore. A Software Milestone Unlike Any Before It OpenClaw is now the single most downloaded open-source software project in history. That’s not a projection or a trend line — it’s where the download curve actually landed, surpassing Linux’s cumulative install base in under a month. ...

Jensen Huang doesn’t hand out superlatives lightly. The NVIDIA CEO has spent decades watching technology cycles come and go — GPUs, CUDA, deep learning, the transformer revolution. So when he says something is “probably the single most important release of software, probably ever,” it’s worth pausing to understand what he actually means. At the Morgan Stanley TMT Conference on March 4, 2026, Huang made the comparison explicit: OpenClaw surpassed Linux’s download record in just three weeks. Linux took thirty years to get there. ...