OpenClaw passed 300,000 GitHub stars. Then Google launched Spark.

OpenClaw, an open-source always-on agent, has topped 300,000 GitHub stars, showing strong demand for personal AI agents.

Google’s Gemini Spark, launched at I/O, offers a similar 24/7 assistant experience but runs on Google Cloud.

The article says the real difference is deployment: self-hosted agents keep control over data, credentials, and context, while cloud agents trade that control for convenience.

That choice is becoming central to the personal-agent market, with major implications for privacy and who owns the runtime.