OpenClaw creator announces move to OpenAI
Austrian creator and developer of chatbot OpenClaw, Peter Steinberger, is to join OpenAI in the future.
Steinberger announced the move in a blog post. His brainchild OpenClaw, which became immensely popular with technical AI tinkerers in only 10 weeks, will be housed in a foundation. This will allow it to continue to be developed independently.
OpenAI’s purpose of Steinberger’s appointment is clear. In the words of Sam Altman, “The future will be extremely multi-agent.” He brings in the expertise of a disruptor or accelerator in that area.
It seems from the Austrian’s blog that the move to OpenAI a week ago was not a done deal. After all, “I spent last week in San Francisco talking to the main labs.”
OpenClaw is like a personal assistant living on your computer. Instead of just answering questions, it can actually do and create things. Typical use cases include inbox management and e-mail automation, sending reminders by Whatsapp and managing to-do lists from a single chat interface. But also, for tasks like completing a shopping list based on recipes.
The big difference with ChatGPT is, that OpenClaw performs actions. It also controls works on a local computer, which does not necessarily need to be connected to the Internet.
On Github, the open source assistant has 200,000 stars (number of users who have favourited a repository), there are 35,000 forks (“variants”) and last month was downloaded an estimated 2.3 million times.
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