"OpenAI has hired Peter Steinberger, creator of the viral OpenClaw AI assistant, to spearhead development of what CEO Sam Altman describes as "the next generation of personal agents." The move comes weeks after OpenClaw, previously known as Clawdbot and then Moltbot, achieved explosive popularity despite security researchers warning of serious vulnerabilities in the open-source tool. Steinberger will join OpenAI full-time to drive the company's personal agent strategy."
""The future is going to be extremely multi-agent and it's important to us to support open source as part of that," Altman wrote. The appointment is significant because OpenClaw demonstrated strong market demand for agents that can execute tasks autonomously, said Sanchit Vir Gogia, chief analyst at Greyhound Research. The project accumulated over 145,000 GitHub stars in weeks despite security concerns."
""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," he wrote. He said OpenClaw will continue evolving as an open-source project. "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 hired Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, to lead development of the next generation of personal agents and to drive the company's personal agent strategy full-time. OpenClaw will operate as an open-source project under an independent foundation with support from OpenAI. Sam Altman emphasized the importance of multi-agent systems and open source. OpenClaw gained rapid popularity, accumulating over 145,000 GitHub stars in weeks despite security researchers warning of serious vulnerabilities. Steinberger said building agents at scale required resources only a few companies can provide and that OpenClaw will continue evolving with his guidance.
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