[OpenClaw Founder Rejects Acquisition Offers from Meta and OpenAI, Insists on Remaining Open Source] According to Deep Tide TechFlow on February 16, as reported by Decrypt, Peter Steinberger, the founder of OpenClaw (formerly known as Clawdbot), revealed that he had received acquisition offers from Meta and OpenAI but insisted that he would only consider a deal if the project remained open source. This self-modifying AI assistant quickly garnered 180,000 stars on GitHub, becoming a significant open-source AI agent platform. Despite the project incurring monthly losses of $10,000–$20,000 and nearly being abandoned due to trademark issues and attacks from cryptocurrency scammers, Steinberger remains committed to the open-source philosophy. He predicts that OpenClaw-style AI agents will replace 80% of existing applications and has already discussed potential collaboration with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.