What OpenClaw's creator is doing at OpenAI
The ClawFather is building a team, already hacking things, and insists OpenClaw will be "little Switzerland." Also: Sierra's agent for building agents, a new book about DeepMind, and more.
I’m back in LA after a productive day in SF yesterday, where I spent a lot of time with OpenAI’s Codex team. Keep reading for more on that. You can also catch me on today’s episode of The Town with Matt Belloni, which I have linked below.
Yesterday morning, I was at ARM’s big event in San Francisco, where CEO Rene Haas cited OpenClaw as a driving force behind what he estimates will be a huge increase in token demand per user. OpenClaw was also the star of the show during Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s recent GTC keynote. He called it “as big of a deal as Linux” and said that “every company in the world today needs to have an OpenClaw strategy.”
A couple of hours after ARM’s event, I was at OpenAI HQ, having lunch with the Codex team and sitting across from Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw, who hasn’t given an interview since he officially joined the company a few weeks ago.
“I didn’t even plan on working at any company,” Steinberger told me. “I do this because it’s fun. Because I feel I can actually change a lot of things.” He’s still technically based in the UK and waiting on a US visa, but hopes to be fully moved to San Francisco soon.
Steinberger did not address why he picked OpenAI over Meta. He did talk frankly about Anthropic, though.
