OpenAI Hires Peter Steinberger as OpenClaw Creator Rejects Meta Offer for Sam Altman

OpenAI hired Peter Steinberger, the developer of the viral open-source AI agent OpenClaw, to lead the development of next-generation personal agents.Peter Steinberger chose the offer from Sam Altman over a competing multibillion-dollar bid from Meta after Mark Zuckerberg provided detailed personal feedback on the software.The OpenClaw project will transition into an independent open-source foundation supported by the OpenAI infrastructure to ensure its autonomous management of digital tasks continues.