Peter Steinberger, who created the AI private assistant now generally known as OpenClaw, has joined OpenAI.
Beforehand generally known as Clawdbot, then Moltbot, OpenClaw achieved viral recognition over the previous few weeks with its promise to be the “AI that truly does issues,” whether or not that’s managing your calendar, reserving flights, and even becoming a member of a social community stuffed with different AI assistants. (The identify modified the primary time after Anthropic threatened authorized motion over its similarity to Claude, then modified once more as a result of Steinberger favored the brand new identify higher.)
In a weblog submit saying his choice to hitch OpenAI, the Austrian developer stated that whereas he may need been capable of flip OpenClaw into an enormous firm, “It’s probably not thrilling for me.”
“What I would like is to vary the world, not construct a big firm[,] and teaming up with OpenAI is the quickest solution to deliver this to everybody,” Steinberger stated.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on X that in his new function, Steinberger will “drive the following era of private brokers.” As for OpenClaw, Altman stated it should “reside in a basis as an open supply venture that OpenAI will proceed to assist”