{"id":477696,"date":"2026-02-16T03:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T03:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/477696\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T03:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T03:02:07","slug":"openclaw-creator-peter-steinberger-joins-openai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/477696\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peter Steinberger, who created the AI personal assistant now known as <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/openclaw.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\">OpenClaw<\/a>, has joined OpenAI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Previously known as Clawdbot, then Moltbot, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/01\/27\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-viral-personal-ai-assistant-clawdbot-now-moltbot\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OpenClaw achieved viral popularity<\/a> over the past few weeks with its promise to be the \u201cAI that actually does things,\u201d whether that\u2019s managing your calendar, booking flights, or even <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/01\/30\/openclaws-ai-assistants-are-now-building-their-own-social-network\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">joining a social network full of other AI assistants<\/a>. (The name changed the first time after Anthropic threatened legal action over its similarity to Claude, then changed again because Steinberger liked the new name better.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/steipete.me\/posts\/2026\/openclaw\" target=\"_blank\">a blog post announcing his decision<\/a> to join OpenAI, the Austrian developer said that while he might have been able to turn OpenClaw into a huge company, \u201cIt\u2019s not really exciting for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat I want is to change the world, not build a large company[,] and teaming up with OpenAI is the fastest way to bring this to everyone,\u201d Steinberger said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OpenAI CEO <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sama\/status\/2023150230905159801?s=46&amp;t=45_xAnRsdQP1GVqYv9Gdbw\">Sam Altman posted on X<\/a> that in his new role, Steinberger will \u201cdrive the next generation of personal agents.\u201d As for OpenClaw, Altman said it will \u201clive in a foundation as an open source project that OpenAI will continue to support\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peter Steinberger, who created the AI personal assistant now known as OpenClaw, has joined OpenAI. Previously known as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-477696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}