OpenClaw launches free enterprise control plane for persistent AI agents, backed by OpenAI, Red Hat and Nvidia

Key Points:

• OpenClaw Enterprise (OCE) is a new open-source, MIT-licensed platform designed to help companies deploy persistent AI agents with centralized control over security, permissions, auditing, and infrastructure, addressing the governance gap that currently limits enterprise adoption of autonomous agents.
• OCE introduces multi-tenancy, fine-grained permissions, workload isolation, sandboxing, and auditing features while allowing enterprises to use their own AI models, agent harnesses, and sandbox implementations, positioning itself as "Kubernetes for agents."
• Originating from OpenAI and now developed independently with contributions from Red Hat and Nvidia, OCE is already piloted internally by OpenAI, which uses it to run persistent agents with privileged access to codebases and deployment systems to automate tasks like fixing broken builds.
• OCE differs from related projects like NanoClaw, which focuses on lightweight personal agent runtimes, and Runlayer, a commercial enterprise AI governance platform, by offering a vendor-neutral, self-hosted control plane focused on managing fleets of persistent agents at enterprise scale.
• While still in pilot stage with key security details forthcoming, OCE aims to provide foundational infrastructure for enterprises to safely operate autonomous agents, complementing other products like OpenAI's Dots and ChatGPT Space, which focus more on user-facing collaboration and assistant experiences.