OpenAI hires OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger, will keep the AI agent open source

OpenAI hires OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger, will keep the AI agent open source

Peter Steinberger, the developer behind the popular AI tool OpenClaw, announced that he will join OpenAI to help shape the next generation of personal AI agents. OpenClaw, known for enabling users to create agents that control applications, recently gained traction as people used it for tasks like coding, inbox management, and online shopping.

Building on this momentum, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, emphasized that Steinberger will focus on advancing multi-agent technologies, tools where intelligent agents can interact to perform useful functions for users. Altman also signaled that this multi-agent approach is expected to quickly become a central part of OpenAI’s product lineup.

While Steinberger’s move marks a shift, OpenClaw’s future as an open source project is secured. OpenAI will maintain OpenClaw through a dedicated foundation, reinforcing a commitment to open source development. Steinberger underscored on his blog that ensuring OpenClaw stays open and free to evolve was a core motivation for his decision, highlighting the broader importance of open platforms in the emerging era of personal and interconnected AI agents.

by Paul

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OpenClaw is a personal AI assistant that operates locally on your device, integrating with popular chat apps like WhatsApp and Telegram. It supports multiple operating systems with features for speech and listening, and includes a live user-managed Canvas. OpenClaw is ad-free, providing a seamless experience without interruptions.

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Why would you, as founder of an open source and free project, move over to open ai, where open only exists in the name of the enterprise ? A guy who built a tool that makes every security specialist express serious worries about privacy and potential issues, moves to "work" on multiple agentic implementations for an an ai tool that is so powerful and omnipresent already, that we should really rethink how we use ai, where we use it and when. How comes we just watch the process flow and now laws get setup to protect privacy and data collection for "training purpose" ? How dangerous might these training data become in the wrong hands, on quantum computers, for not - so - ethical purposes ? Am I overreacting or are we all just way too cool considering the speed of progress and the level of "potential" that lies beneath this technology ?

SleipnirTheHorse
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Ugh, everyone is selling out!

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Ruvenss G Wilches

everybody has the right to do so, is their work, their nights off, their life time, and if for you the life time of someone should be free, then you have no concept of fairness.

SleipnirTheHorse

Did I say that everything should be free? If you're a Liberdumboian please go away, I'm a capitalist, I just I don't embrace a religious concept like, "The Free Market," over proven fact that markets are better regulated and have some socialism as a backup for when things get hectic. I do, do religious concepts, just when there's scientific backing for an alternative, which is why I don't believe the Gods carved us from Oak Trees. Further, your belief he could produce all this by himself is stupid, unless he did all from things he derived directly from nature and it was protected by only him. Guess what, his rights to produce what he did were protected by police paid for by the government, he used an internet paid for and protected by the Government, the workers who built his computer used socialized roads to transport themselves and it, and he used them too most likely and you go into miliions other the collective and non-government allowed to produce what he did. Fact, the individual does not exist without the collective or otherwise faces the state of nature. You can deny the reality of the social contract on paper, you can't deny it when push comes to shove because it proves itself through minimal examination. Fairness would be giving to everyone not the oppisite like you argue, I do not believe in such simplistic values, expect in the micro, the macro has an entirely different logic.

scrambler
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I can only guess that the real reason for the second rename was to include "Open" in the name for an easy acquisition for OpenAI.

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