OpenAI’s Sam Altman is all Ready To Welcome OpenClaw’s Genius Creator, Peter Steinberger
In a surprise move that is sending ripples through the AI world, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that Peter Steinberger, the brilliant mind behind the viral open-source AI agent OpenClaw, is joining the company. This hire comes at a pivotal time as tech giants race to develop smarter, more autonomous personal agents that can handle real-world tasks without requiring constant human input.
Peter Steinberger, an Austrian software engineer and the founder of the PDF processing company PSPDFKit, had stepped out of retirement in late 2025 to launch OpenClaw. What started as Clawdbot, then briefly Moltbot, ...