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Sam Altman’s Acqui-Hire of OpenClaw’s Peter Steinberger May Define ChatGPT’s Future

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21.02.2026

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Sam Altman’s Acqui-Hire of OpenClaw’s Peter Steinberger May Define ChatGPT’s Future

The OpenClaw founder moves to work with Sam Altman as OpenAI shifts from chatbots to always-on personal agents.

OpenAI’s latest acqui-hire puts Peter Steinberger, the creator of the open-source A.I. agent OpenClaw, at the center of the fast-moving stage of agentic A.I. The A.I. powerhouse has hired Steinberger to lead its personal agents division, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced on X on Feb. 15, praising him as “a genius with a lot of amazing ideas about the future of very smart agents interacting with each other to do very useful things for people.”

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Steinberger’s creation has taken the developer world by storm in recent weeks for its ability to turn a large language model into something that doesn’t just chat........

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