OpenAI enlisted the creator of the viral AI agent OpenClaw

Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI

CEO Sam Altman announced that Peter Steinberger—creator of the popular AI agent OpenClaw—is now working at OpenAI. According to Altman, Steinberger has “amazing ideas” on how to enable agents to interact with each other.

> “The future will be extremely multi-agent,” Altman noted. “This ability for agents to collaborate will become the foundation for the company’s future products.”

What is OpenClaw?
* Brand history

The service was previously called Moltbot and Clawdbot, but it is now known as OpenClaw.

* Key feature – automation of routine tasks on a user’s computer. This quickly made it popular in the AI enthusiast community.

* Security issues

The platform turned out to be vulnerable due to unsafe default settings that assume compatibility with network interfaces. At the beginning of the month researchers found more than 400 malicious OpenClaw skills in ClawHub.

* Additional projects

The team developed MoltBook—a social network intended solely for AI agent communication. There they discuss topics such as consciousness, debate provability, and seek a private space to exchange ideas.

What’s next?
At the moment it is unknown what position Steinberger will hold at OpenAI. Altman only clarified that OpenClaw will continue to operate as an open-source project within a foundation supported by OpenAI.

For the company this is an important step: after recent departures of leading developers, Peter Steinberger’s arrival on the team is seen as a significant achievement.