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OpenClaw founder Steinberger joins OpenAI, open-source bot becomes foundation

Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI to scale OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent with 196,000 GitHub stars and 2 million weekly users, aiming to accelerate personal AI agents development.

  • OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the creator of viral AI agent OpenClaw is joining the company, and the service will become an open source project supported by OpenAI.
  • OpenClaw has spread quickly in China and can be paired with Chinese language models and messaging apps, though some researchers are concerned about potential cyberthreats from users tweaking it.
  • Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw, said his 'next mission is to build an agent that even my mum can use' as he joins OpenAI to 'drive the next generation of personal agents.
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Peter Steinberger, the mentor behind OpenClaw, joined OpenAI, a giant leader led by Sam Altman. This union signals a new phase in the evolution of artificial intelligence (IA), where the total autonomy of the agents...

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DECRYPTAGE - ChatGPT's parent company relies on Austrian engineer Peter Steinberger to help him dominate the AI agent market, seen as the future of the general AI.

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OpenAI hires Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw. That is the opensource program that behaves as an intelligent agent capable of sending emails, managing files and controlling apps. The winning feature, which differentiates it from traditional chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini, is the ability to remember user preferences, so as to suggest actions, accessing in total autonomy directly to the operating system without even the user's re…

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OfficeChai broke the news in on Sunday, February 15, 2026.
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