OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI

In Brief

Peter Steinberger, who created the AI idiosyncratic adjunct present known arsenic OpenClaw, has joined OpenAI.

Previously known arsenic Clawdbot, past Moltbot, OpenClaw achieved viral popularity implicit the past fewer weeks with its committedness to beryllium the “AI that really does things,” whether that’s managing your calendar, booking flights, oregon adjacent joining a societal web afloat of different AI assistants. (The sanction changed the archetypal clip aft Anthropic threatened ineligible enactment implicit its similarity to Claude, past changed again due to the fact that Steinberger liked the caller sanction better.)

In a blog station announcing his decision to articulation OpenAI, the Austrian developer said that portion helium mightiness person been capable to crook OpenClaw into a immense company, “It’s not truly breathtaking for me.”

“What I privation is to alteration the world, not physique a ample company[,] and teaming up with OpenAI is the fastest mode to bring this to everyone,” Steinberger said.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted connected X that Steinberger volition “drive the adjacent procreation of idiosyncratic agents.” As for OpenClaw, Altman said it volition “live successful a instauration arsenic an unfastened root task that OpenAI volition proceed to support”

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