alt Hacker NewsNo they didn't. You can see all the commits as this was built iteratively[0]. This project started development on Saturday morning and now it's here.
This is pretty common now, people love to rapidly throw together stuff and show it off a few days later. The only thing different about this from your average Show HN sloppa is that it's living under the NVIDIA Github org, though that also has 700+ repositories[1] in it so they don't appear too discerning about what makes it into the official repo.
My best guess is this was an internal hackathon project they wanted to release publicly.
[0] https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/commits/main/?after=241ff...
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it's the new norm that you put together stuff, it works and you show it off.
all the naysayers, "senior" engineers who haven't done any assisted coding by Claude/codex, just need to get either with the program or it's time to retire, as this is just the beginning.
if you can't ship stuff in days then I have some bad news for you.
There was some kind of public knowledge of this project over a week ago because people were trying to domain squat them and submit it to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=nemoclaw.bot
Sorry to be the one to inform you that we edit history in git.
There has been reporting on nemoclaw for the last couple weeks. Are you supposing that journalists were writing about software that hadn't even been designed?
Cash in on the claw brand recognition by having "claw, but Nvidia".
And, to be fair to them, it works. It sticks. It gets the desired reactions.