OpenAI grabs OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger to build personal agents

Peter Steinberger, the creator of the tantalizing-but-risky personal AI agent OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI.

In a Sunday Xeet, OpenAI boss Sam Altman said Steinberger will “drive the next generation of personal agents.”

“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. We expect this will quickly become core to our product offerings,” Altman added.

Steinberger used his blog to explain his decision.

“I could totally see how OpenClaw could become a huge company,” he wrote, but said “it’s not really exciting for me.”

“I’m a builder at heart. I did the whole creating-a-company game already, poured 13 years of my life into it and learned a lot. What I want is to change the world, not build a large company, and teaming up with OpenAI is the fastest way ...