Two new OpenClaw videos landed this week, covering different ends of the experience spectrum — one deep on the new performance release, the other a ground-up installation guide for beginners running local models.
"New OpenClaw Update is INSANE" — Julian Goldie SEO
Julian Goldie walks through what landed in the recent v2026.5.26 release with a chapter-by-chapter breakdown that reads almost like a guided tour of the changelog. Highlights include:
- Model listing from 20 seconds to 5ms — a 4,000× speedup from caching provider metadata on hot paths.
- Faster startup via lazy loading — the Gateway now defers slash-command metadata, context compaction, and fallback imports until they're actually needed.
- Hot path caching — plugin snapshots, model cost indexes, and auth facts are now reused across turns instead of re-scanned.
- Meeting Notes Plugin — auto-capture and transcript import, tying in directly to the new Transcripts feature.
- Windows fixes — WSL2, Node shims, and rollback support all addressed.
- UI improvements — session search, image paste fix, and Control UI updates.
The video is structured as a chapter-by-chapter walkthrough rather than a talking-head summary, which makes it genuinely useful as a reference alongside the release notes. Julian also covers a "What is OpenClaw?" primer chapter for viewers who are new to the project.
"Finally! A Simple Tutorial For Installing Openclaw AI Agent with Ollama" — Rob Braxman Tech
Rob Braxman — known for his privacy and security-focused tech content — turns his attention to OpenClaw this week with a complete installation walkthrough using Ollama for 100% local, open-source model inference. If you've been wanting to run OpenClaw without sending any data to cloud providers, this is the tutorial for you.
Braxman's audience tends to be privacy-conscious, so his framing emphasizes that Ollama keeps all inference on-device — no API keys, no cloud calls, no data leaving your machine. The tutorial covers:
- Installing Ollama and pulling a local model
- Installing OpenClaw and pointing it at the local Ollama endpoint
- Basic configuration and first-run validation
The "Finally!" in the title is a nod to how scattered the available documentation has been for this specific setup. With OpenClaw's local model support maturing, this kind of community-authored guide fills a real gap.
Worth Watching This Week
Both videos are worth bookmarking depending on your use case. If you're already an OpenClaw user and want to understand what changed in v2026.5.26, start with Julian's breakdown. If you're evaluating OpenClaw for a privacy-first setup with local models, Rob's Ollama tutorial is the better entry point.
The full OpenClaw changelog is on GitHub.