OpenClaw founder responds to Anthropic ban: Independent project, previously invited Anthropic to join nonprofit organization After Anthropic announced the ban on OpenClaw, its founder Peter Steinberger urgently clarified: OpenClaw is an independently operated project and has no connection to his personal involvement with OpenAI. He revealed that OpenClaw had proactively invited Anthropic and over ten other companies to join its nonprofit organization, but Anthropic did not respond, while most of the other companies have already agreed.