OpenAI hires creator of 'AI-only' social media platform Moltbook, Sam Altman says ‘future is extremely multi-agent’

OpenAI has hired Openclaw founder and the man behind viral AI social media app Peter Steinberger to lead the ‘next generation of personal agents’ at the company. Sam Altman announced the induction of Steinberg in a post on X where he also noted that OpenClaw could continue to live as an open source project supported by OpenAI.

“Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents. He is a genius with a lot of amazing ideas about the future of very smart agents interacting with each other to do very useful things for people. We expect this will quickly become core to our product offerings.” announced Altman

“OpenClaw will live in a foundation as an open source project that OpenAI will continue to support. The future is going to be extremely multi-agent and it's important to us to support open source as part of that.” he added

What is OpenClaw? Why is it famous?

OpenClaw is an open-source framework that recently gained game after the popularity of AI only social media platform Moltbook. The platform allows users to run autonomous AI agents on their machines and connect to the apps that they already use like WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, Teams and more.

The platform has led to the complex technology being democratized whil risks have also popped up about the potential misuse. For instance, X Product Head Nikita Bier had recently predicted that OpenClaw's democratization of spammy bots will lead to emails, iMessages and phone calls becoming virtually unusable in the next 3 months.