Sam Altman stated that Peter Steinberger, the founder of OpenClaw, will join OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal intelligent agents and make this area a core product for OpenAI.
Information posted by Altman on X on February 16th highlights the vision of a multi-agent system era and the Vai of the open-source OpenClaw project in OpenAI's development strategy.
- Peter Steinberger joined OpenAI to develop the next generation of personal intelligent agents.
- OpenClaw continues to exist as an open-source project and is supported by OpenAI.
- OpenAI is betting on the era of multi-agent systems and considers open source to be key.
OpenAI is recruiting founders for OpenClaw, focusing on individual intelligent agents.
Sam Altman confirmed that Peter Steinberger will join OpenAI to lead the development of the next generation of personal intelligent agents.
According to Altman, Steinberger is a genius with many ideas about how intelligent agents will collaborate to provide practical services to humans. OpenAI expects multi-agent collaboration capabilities to soon become a core part of its products.
Altman also emphasized that this development direction is linked to a multi-agent future: agents not working in isolation but coordinating to perform tasks and create direct value. The announcement did not specify a timeline for deployment, but included the phrase "soon to become core to the product."
OpenClaw continues to be open source, and OpenAI is committed to supporting it.
OpenClaw will exist as an open-source project within the foundation, and OpenAI will continue to support the project.
The post stated that OpenClaw was not shut down after its founder joined OpenAI. Instead, the project remains open, consistent with Altman's view that supporting open-source projects is a crucial part of achieving large-scale, multi-agent systems.
The future will be an era of highly multi-agent systems, and supporting open-source projects is an important part of achieving this goal.
