OpenClaw's Creator Just Joined OpenAI. Here's Why That Matters More Than You Think.
A solo developer vibe-codes an AI assistant. It goes viral. Anthropic threatens to sue over the name. He rebrands twice. Within a month, he’s hired by OpenAI to build the future of personal AI agents. That’s not a hypothetical. That’s Peter Steinberger’s actual February. From Side Project to OpenAI in 30 Days Steinberger was already a known name — he founded PSPDFKit and ran it for 13 years. But OpenClaw was different. It started as a tinkering project called Clawdbot: an AI assistant that could actually do things. Not just chat. Manage calendars, book flights, send messages, even talk to other AI assistants on what became a genuinely weird and wonderful AI social network. ...