OpenClaw Founder Joins OpenAI Says AI Agent Will Remain Open-Source

OpenClaw (formerly known as Moltbot and Clawd) Founder Peter Steinberger has joined OpenAI. He said on Sunday that he would join the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence (AI) giant, and it appears a company will be building AI agents for its own firm. Steinberger said OpenClaw will remain open-source, despite the move. This has helped the AI agent become popular in recent weeks, as it was easy to set it up and no cloud dependency. It has also been used by many of the tools for building agentic workflows, which have been shared online.

OpenClaw Found Is Joining OpenAI

The X (formerly called Twitter) founder of OpenClaw announced his decision to join the AI giant in a post on x (now known as Twitter). But the agentic tool will now “move to a foundation and remain open, independent,” he added. He also said in a blog post that he will be ‘joining OpenAI’ to work on bringing agents to everyone. Paraphrast.

Meanwhile, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman also mentioned Steinberger’s acquisition with the company, stating that “I will be working on the next generation of personal agents.” I’m thinking of the future, he said ‘I think there are many amazing ideas about what is going to be some kind of core in my personal AI agent that will soon become part of our product offerings from the AI giant. He added ‘The future is going to be very multi-agent and we need to support open source as part of that.

Steinberger said ‘OpenClaw could have been a successful company, but I didn’t want to start. I want to build AI agents even if someone doesn’t know the tech,’ Calling himself “a builder at heart” said. Speaking last week, he also revealed that the company ‘I spoke to a number of AI companies’; at the end I chose OpenAI. Steinberger was also cited for considering Meta’s Superintelligence Labs, according to some reports.

For example, as for OpenClaw, the AI agent will remain open to the public because it is currently available in a community. But OpenAI’s foundation will run the offering, albeit under . The code will be open and free for anyone to use, modify or fork (it will prevent it from being used as a closed proprietary product), so that it is not modified by any other person.