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# An assistant that runs on your own devices: OpenClaw 2.0 sets up with a Gemini key in under a minute
- URL: https://globalfeed.ai/en/an-assistant-that-runs-on-your-own-devices-openclaw-2-0-sets-up-with-a-gemini-key-in-under-a-minute/
- Published: 2026-08-31T22:46:51.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-31T22:46:51.000Z
- Description: Philipp Schmid of Google DeepMind published the recipe: five commands install OpenClaw 2.0, connect Gemini 3.7 Flash and turn on Google search grounding by default. The assistant lives on your devices, in your chats, with your rules.
- Author: GlobalFeed Editor
- Tags: OpenClaw, Google, Gemini, agents, x-openclaw, x-_philschmid, x-GoogleAIStudio, dil-en, elle, video

The idea of a personal AI assistant is moving off the cloud account and onto your own devices. Philipp Schmid, who works on the Gemini API and agents at Google DeepMind, published a recipe for setting up the open-source assistant OpenClaw 2.0 with Gemini in under sixty seconds: five commands, a free Google AI Studio key, and you are done.

OpenClaw's pitch is an assistant that actually does things rather than talk about them: it runs on your devices, in your chats, with your rules. You can talk to it from the browser control UI or through Telegram, Discord, WhatsApp and Slack. The toolset is full: browser automation, terminal execution, filesystem access and web search grounding. It also keeps memory across sessions, so it remembers your preferences, projects and the people around you.

Setup needs only Node.js and a Gemini key: the package installs globally via npm, the key goes into the local profile store, and the default model is set to Gemini 3.7 Flash. Per Schmid, 3.7 Flash exceeds 300 tokens per second, making it one of the fastest options for coding and agent work, and Google search grounding is enabled out of the box. Version 2.0 is the project's largest update yet: simpler install, a rebuilt browser app that opens straight into a conversation, and setup you can finish by talking to the assistant itself.

Context: this week we covered Hermes, where agents DM each other, WebMCP, where sites open up to agents, and OpenAI's plugin store. OpenClaw is the personal end of the same wave: whoever owns the model, the assistant runs on your machine under your rules.