Xubin Ren / HKUDS
To provide an ultra-lightweight, self-hosted personal AI agent kernel that is minimalist, readable, and stable.
At a Glance
- Developers
- AI Researchers
- Open-source enthusiasts
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nanobot
Lightweight Local AI Agent CLI
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Latest News
Nanobot v0.2.1 Release: Supporting AIHubmix and Web MCP
Nanobot goes viral, hitting 5,000 GitHub stars in 3 days
Presentation of Nanobot at Hong Kong - Shanghai AI Forum 2026
Xubin Ren announces the beginning of Nanobot AI project
Products & Services
An ultra-lightweight personal AI agent framework designed for local hosting and tool orchestration.
Market Position
Positioned as the '99% Smaller OpenClaw Killer', focusing on minimalism and developer readability over feature bloat.
Leadership
Founders
Xubin Ren
Ph.D. student at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), Data Science. Previously at Baidu, Inc. Researcher in Graph Neural Networks and Language Models.
Chao Huang
Assistant Professor at HKU and Lead of the Data Intelligence Lab (HKUDS). Expert in Recommender Systems and Spatio-temporal Data Mining.
Executive Team
Xubin Ren
Creator & Lead Maintainer
Lead researcher and original developer of the nanobot framework at HKUDS Lab.
Chao Huang
Advisor / Lab Director
Director of the Data Intelligence Lab at HKU, overseeing the development of HKUDS projects.
Founding Story
Started by Xubin Ren as a reaction to the increasing complexity of AI agent frameworks (like OpenClaw), aiming to deliver core functionality in 1% of the code size.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Open Source (MIT License). Currently free to use with personal API keys for LLM providers.
Pricing Tiers
Full access to code, self-hosted, no usage fees.
Target Markets
- Developers
- AI Researchers
- Open-source enthusiasts
- Personal AI coworker
- Workflow automation
- Tool orchestration
- Local AI hosting
- Individual developers
- AI researchers at HKU