OpenAI hires creator of 'OpenClaw' AI agent tool
The Hindu
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OpenAI has hired the Austrian creator of OpenClaw, an artificial intelligence tool able to execute real-world tasks, the US startup's head Sam Altman said on Sunday.
AI agent tool OpenClaw has fascinated, and spooked, the tech world since researcher Peter Steinberger built it in November to help organise his digital life.
A Reddit-like pseudo social network for OpenClaw agents called Moltbook, where chatbots converse, has also grabbed headlines and provoked soul-searching over AI.
Elon Musk called Moltbook "the very early stages of the singularity,” a term for the moment when human intelligence is overwhelmed by AI forever, although some people have questioned to what extent humans are manipulating the bots' posts.
Steinberger "is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents," Altman wrote in an X post.
"He is 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," he said.
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