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Isn't this much the same as OpenClaw or Hermes?

I think it's a good thing that AI providers are "coalescing" on an agent-model, by producing competing agent-products.

But so what would be the benefit of "Dots" over OpenClaw, Hermes, and Muse?

It's Dropbox vs rsync. The agent providers are making it stupidly easy to use something like OpenClaw/Hermes with zero set up and a very low learning curve. Also, in their technotopia, you don't use your computer to host the agent, you use theirs. When you need to drive, they give you screen sharing access, but its still on their servers. The benefit to the user is they don't have to make an upfront expensive payment for computer hardware anymore, and the agent provider gets to own all of your compute and data in their cloud

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