2026-02-15T22:52:03.243Z
- Sam Altman says OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger will be joining OpenAI.
- OpenClaw is a viral AI agent released last month.
- Altman said Steinberger will build a “next generation” AI agent with OpenAI.
OpenAI just won the AI talent war.
Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, a viral AI agent that powers agent-specific AI, said Sam Altman on X on Sunday. social network malt bookis participating in OpenAI.
Altman said Steinberger will build the “next generation” of personal AI agents at the company.
“He’s a genius who has a lot of great ideas about a future where very smart agents work together to do things that will help people,” Altman said of Steinberger. “We hope this will soon become a core part of our offering.”
Altman added that OpenClaw, which was briefly known as Moltbot and then Clawdbot before Anthropic took notice, will continue as an open source project supported by OpenAI.
“The future is going to be very multi-agent, and supporting open source as part of that is important to us,” he wrote.
Steinberger, previously best known as the founder of PDF processing company PSPDFKit, came out of retirement to launch OpenClaw in late 2025.
He is likely to bring a new perspective to OpenAI’s race to develop artificial general intelligence. Steinberger said he believes AGI is best suited as a specialized form of intelligence rather than generalized intelligence.
“What can one person actually accomplish? Do you think one person can build an iPhone? Or do you think one person can go to space?” Steinberger said on the Y Combinator podcast in February. “We are specializing as a group and even more specializing as a larger society.”
