Open Claw founder joins OpenAI
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced on February 15, 2026, that Peter Steinberger, the founder of the viral open-source AI agent OpenClaw, has joined the company.
Key Details of the Move
Role at OpenAI: Steinberger will lead the development of the "next generation of personal agents". OpenAI expects these agents to become a core part of its product offerings.
OpenClaw's Future: The project will not be "acquired" in the traditional sense; instead, it will transition into an independent open-source foundation supported by OpenAI.
Background: Steinberger (an Austrian developer) built OpenClaw (formerly known as Clawdbot or Moltbot) as a solo project in November 2025. It gained rapid popularity, reaching over 194,000 GitHub stars and 2 million weekly visitors by February 2026.
Capabilities: OpenClaw is designed to be an autonomous assistant that manages personal data and tasks—such as handling emails, booking flights, and managing calendars—directly on a user's hardware.
This hiring is seen as a strategic move to compete with rivals like Anthropic, which recently launched its own agentic features like Claude Code.
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