There’s a quiet but very real tension building ahead of Microsoft Build this year (which starts tomorrow, 2nd June).
Build will be keynoted by Satya Nadella and the big question everyob is asking is “will Microsoft be walking onto stage and announcing their own OpenClaw/ClawPilot/CoClaw offering.
Now, I must stress, there is nothing yet announced but if you look at the noise and where the market is, this could be a dress rehearsal for exactly that moment…
ClawCopilot rumours
Whilst we know and have been told no facts or anything from Microsoft, there is a lot of speculation floating around which is not suprising given the pressure and expectations from Microsoft abotu what is next.
Here is what we know so far – these are more indication signals….
Omar Shahine’s new job
Omar Shahine’s new mandate – Omar Shahine has said publicly on Linked In that his new job at Microsoft is about “bringing OpenClaw + personal agents to Microsoft 365”, explicitly calling out proactive assistants that take on tasks end‑to‑end and can step in without being asked.
According to reports, He demonstrated how Lobster works during a presentation to Microsoft’s AI Accelerator group on Feb. 26. And by March 31, he had a new role at Microsoft: To bring OpenClaw and personal agents to Microsoft 365.
He is now Corporate Vice President for “OpenClaw + M365”.
Report on GeekWire
Next we have Mary Jo Foley’s reporting on GeekWire which talks about a small “Ocean 11” team, a desktop environment called ClawPilot, and more than 3,000 daily internal users as of May 1 – up from about 100 the week before.
The report talks about a product that
- is an Always‑on agent team: A “Chief of Staff” agent, an “Executive Assistant” agent, plus specialist agents working 24/7 across your Microsoft 365 life.
- leverages a Persistent runtime: It “monitors your signals continuously, prepares your day before you wake up, triages your inbox while you’re in meetings, and follows up on action items without being asked.”
- Has an internal code name of Project Lobster: ClawPilot supposedly sits under an internal umbrella called Project Lobster, built on the open‑source OpenClaw framework.
Looking at these posts and stories from reputable sources, does point at the fact that ClawPilot (I doubt it will actually be called that) might run as a OpenClaw‑based desktop assistant – framing back as original view of Copilot for Windows of a “computer that acts, not just answers” Then we have this…
An Ultra Copilot PC to Run ClawCopilot
This is REAL – A new Device from Surface – Yes – you heard it – “Introducing Surface Laptop Ultra: Made for world makers” which was announced last night at Computex.
There will be a later blog on this soon, but in short:
- Surface Laptop Ultra
- One PETAFLOP of AI compute.
- 128GB unified memory.
- Full CUDA.
- Runs 120Billion parameter AI models locally.
- Battery powered.
- 15-inch mini-LED PixelSense Ultra touchscreen with 2,000 nits of peak HDR
Microsoft say it is engineered with NVIDIA from the silicon up, optimized for RTX Spark, powered by Windows 11 and “made for a kind of work that does not fit in a standard laptop“. They also say in their blog that
“A machine like this should not sit still. It should be pushed. Taken to the edge. Used to make real what others call impossible” – the writing is on the wall!!
Link: Introducing Surface Laptop Ultra
So… will we see “ClawCopilot” at Build?
I’d be surprised if we don’t see it in some form along with some new hardware to run the tool – all built from Microsoft.
Build is tomorrow……. let’s see what the future holds!
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