PicoClaw

PicoClaw is a self-hosted personal AI assistant built in Go by the hardware maker Sipeed. Unlike cloud-first assistants that require browsers, subscriptions and always-on servers, PicoClaw compiles down to one self-contained binary with no external runtime dependencies. It uses under 10MB of RAM, cold-starts in about a second even on a 0.6GHz single-core chip, and runs across x86_64, ARM64, ARMv7, ARMv6, RISC-V and MIPS architectures as well as Docker and Android via APK or Termux. That means a $10 board such as the LicheeRV-Nano can host a genuine conversational assistant.

The project positions itself as a Go rewrite of the earlier TypeScript and Python assistants, claiming roughly an order of magnitude less memory and dramatically faster boot. You bring your own model access: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, DeepSeek, Mistral, Qwen, Moonshot, Cerebras, Perplexity, Ollama and any OpenAI-compatible endpoint are supported, so you can swap providers with a config change. Conversations, memory and configuration stay on your device.

The assistant is more than a chat window. It can act as a channel gateway across Telegram, Discord, Slack, DingTalk, Feishu, WeCom, LINE and QQ, run scheduled commands and cron automation, expose an MCP/REST interface for integration work, and handle day-to-day tasks such as coding help, drafting and local data analysis. PicoClaw is distributed free under an MIT-compatible license, with optional community channels on Discord, WeChat and X.