"From an AI research perspective, this is nothing novel," one expert told TechCrunch.

OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joined OpenAI after fielding offers from both the company and Meta, where Zuckerberg personally tested the viral AI agent.

Previously known as both Clawdbot and Moltbot, OpenClaw recently became a Silicon Valley darling, charming AI enthusiasts and investors eager to either embrace the bleeding edge or profit from it. The highly capable, web-savvy AI bot has even inspired its own AI-only (or mostly) social network.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that OpenClaw creator and software developer Peter Steinberger is joining to lead the next generation of personal AI agents as its ad-monetization lead explains the future of media buying.

OpenAI announced on Sunday it had hired Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw.

Peter Steinberger, the creator of the trending Moltbot (former Clawdbot) AI agent, talks to TBPN about how Anthropic contacted him to rebrand the project, which he named after Claw’d, the Claude Code mascot.

Peter Steinberger's open-source AI agent OpenClaw hit 180,000 GitHub stars and spawned MoltBook chaos. Now Meta and OpenAI want to buy it, but he's determined to keep it free.

Chinese search engine operator Baidu plans Friday to start letting smartphone app users to directly tell OpenClaw AI to perform tasks.