"The future is going to be extremely multi-agent and it's important to us to support open source as part of that,"
"The hiring matters because OpenClaw sits at the edge where conversational AI becomes actionable AI,"
"It moves from drafting to doing."
"The vision of truly useful personal agents - ones that can help with real work, not just answer questions - requires resources and infrastructure that only a handful of companies can provide,"
"This isn't an acqui-hire where a project gets shut down. I'll still be involved in guiding its direction, just with significantly more resources behind it."
OpenAI has hired Peter Steinberger to lead development of the next generation of personal agents, with Steinberger joining full-time to drive the company's agent strategy. OpenClaw will continue as an open-source project under an independent foundation that OpenAI will support. OpenClaw achieved explosive popularity, accumulating over 145,000 GitHub stars in weeks while prompting security researchers to warn of serious vulnerabilities. The project demonstrated market demand for agents that can execute tasks autonomously and shift AI from drafting to doing. OpenClaw enables AI models to interact with desktop environments and reflects a move toward a multi-agent future with open-source support.
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