[OpenAI Announces Hiring of OpenClaw Founder to Drive Development of Next-Generation Personal Agents] BlockBeats News, February 16 — OpenAI founder Sam Altman posted, 'Peter Steinberger, founder of OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot), will join OpenAI to drive the development of next-generation personal agents. He is a genius with many astonishing ideas about how future agents can collaborate and provide practical services to people. We expect this to soon become the core of our product. OpenClaw will exist as an open-source project within a foundation, and OpenAI will continue to support it. The future will be an era of highly multi-agent systems, and supporting open source is an important part of achieving this goal.'