Foundation and Governance: Non-Profit Transition, Steinberger at OpenAI

OpenClaw Foundation established as 501(c)(3) with Dave Morin chair, Vincent Koc chief architect. Backed by OpenAI, NVIDIA, Microsoft. Steinberger joined OpenAI but project remains OSS. IPO plans with $71B valuation reported. Open Secure AI Alliance founding member. 4.5M new users weekly. NPM downloads 4.2M/week post-security panic. Dave Morin's 'Linux of AI' analogy positions OpenClaw as a foundational open-source platform. Steinberger's team spends $1.3M/month on API tokens for development (603B tokens), run by 3-person team, highlighting extreme resource intensity and OpenAI backing.