Selling OpenClaw to OpenAI was a brilliant move from Peter Steinberger Passing the lemon to someone else for good cash. The app is useless, and the usefulness of it, is inversely proportional to the hype. Again, congrats to him for selling. I would have done the same.

@asaio87 He didn't sell shit, he just got a job.

@ARP4Freedom really ? why ? i was under the impression that he sold, but he hangs around to help with the project and he gets paid for that too

@asaio87 I have no idea why people posted that it was sold. He still owns it, but may have an non-compete so he has to push open ai. I saw that it was sold for 30b, 1b, then 30m or whatever. He still owns the open source project that anyone can fork.

@ARP4Freedom @asaio87 Didn’t sama post that they acquired it? While I don’t like grok, I will tag it as I’m too lazy to search. So @grok did Sam Altman post on X that they acquired Openclaw, or did they just offer Peter a job?

Sam Altman's X post states that Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to work on personal agents, and OpenClaw will continue as an open-source project in a foundation supported by OpenAI. No mention of acquisition—it's presented as a hiring. Peter's blog confirms OpenClaw stays independent.