Peter Steinberger's open-source AI agent OpenClaw hit 180,000 GitHub stars and spawned MoltBook chaos. Now Meta and OpenAI want to buy it, but he's determined to keep it free.
OpenAI said OpenClaw will live on as an open source project.
"From an AI research perspective, this is nothing novel," one expert told TechCrunch.
In a post on his personal site, Steinberger said that joining OpenAI would allow him to achieve his goal of bringing AI ...