Steinberger posted on his blog on February , . Sam Altman's public announcement on X came the next day. You can read Altman's exact words: "Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents."
You can read Steinberger's reasoning too: "What I want is to change the world, not build a large company and teaming up with OpenAI is the fastest way to bring this to everyone."
Both OpenAI and Meta were in negotiations. He chose OpenAI. For you, this means the person who built OpenClaw now has direct access to the latest OpenAI models and research. That influence flows back into OpenClaw's direction, even though Steinberger no longer controls the project day-to-day.