{"id":223080,"date":"2026-02-15T22:28:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T22:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/15\/openclaw-creator-peter-steinberger-joins-openai-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T22:28:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T22:28:02","slug":"openclaw-creator-peter-steinberger-joins-openai-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/15\/openclaw-creator-peter-steinberger-joins-openai-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<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\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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\" target=\"_blank\">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<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/02\/15\/openclaw-creator-peter-steinberger-joins-openai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Steinberger, who created the AI personal assistant now known as OpenClaw, has joined OpenAI. Previously known as Clawdbot, then Moltbot, OpenClaw achieved viral popularity 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 joining a social network full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-223080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}