Peter Steinberger, the founder of open-source autonomous AI agent OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI (OPENAI).
OpenClaw is a personal assistant that runs locally on a user’s machine. It integrates with apps such as WhatsApp and Telegram to automate tasks such as managing calendars and sending emails.
“Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents. He is a genius with a lot of amazing ideas about the future of very smart agents interacting with each other to do very useful things for people. We expect this will quickly become core to our product offerings,” said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in a post on X.
Altman noted that OpenClaw — formerly known as Clawdbot or Moltbot — will live in a foundation as an open-source project that OpenAI will continue to support.
“OpenClaw will live in a foundation as an open source project that OpenAI will continue to support. The future is going to be extremely multi-agent and it’s important to us to support open source as part of that,” said Altman.
“It’s always been important to me that OpenClaw stays open source and given the freedom to flourish. Ultimately, I felt OpenAI was the best place to continue pushing on my vision and expand its reach. The more I talked with the people there, the clearer it became that we both share the same vision,” said Steinberger in a blog post.