"Sam Altman said Sunday on X that Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw, the viral AI agent powering the agent-only social network Moltbook, is joining OpenAI. Altman said Steinberger would build the "next generation" of personal AI agents at the company. "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," Altman said about Steinberger. "We expect this will quickly become core to our product offerings.""
"Altman added that OpenClaw, which was for a brief moment in time known as Moltbot and then Clawdbot before Anthropic took notice, will live on as an open-source project supported by OpenAI. "The future is going to be extremely multi-agent and it's important to us to support open source as part of that," he wrote. Steinberger, previously best known for founding the PDF processing company PSPDFKit, came out of retirement to launch OpenClaw in late 2025."
Peter Steinberger, creator of the viral AI agent OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI to build next-generation personal AI agents and advance multi-agent capabilities. OpenClaw powered the agent-only social network Moltbook and briefly used the names Moltbot and Clawdbot before Anthropic took notice. OpenClaw will remain an open-source project supported by OpenAI. OpenAI expects multi-agent systems to become central to its product offerings. Steinberger previously founded the PDF processing company PSPDFKit and came out of retirement to launch OpenClaw in late 2025. Steinberger favors specialized forms of AGI and emphasizes specialization and collaboration among agents and people.
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