OpenAI confirmed the hiring of Peter Steinberger, the founder of OpenClaw, a popular open-source personal agent project. The company is assigning him to its personal agents team and is pledging support for a new foundation to manage the existing software. The move followed weeks of aggressive courtship from competitors like Meta as Steinberger sought to impact the field without building a new startup.
OpenAI hires OpenClaw founder to develop personal AI agents
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