New Delhi, Feb. 16 -- Peter Steinberger of OpenClaw, the man behindthe open-source AI personal assistant project, joins OpenAI. In a blog post, he said he would be joining aspart of the frontier of AI research and development team.

OpenClaw, which was first calledClawbot, then Moltbot, began as an open-source autonomous AI assistant created by Peter Steinberger in late 2025. It quickly went viral for letting users run a powerful, action-taking AI agent locally on their own machines but also drew security and privacy concerns because its autonomous access to files and apps can be risky if misconfigured.

Anthropic, the company behind Claude, had reportedly raised trademark concerns when the project was originally called"Clawbot" because i...