Peter Steinberger Hired by OpenAI & OpenClaw Foundation Established

OpenAI hires Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, validating OpenClaw architecture but raising questions about future project stewardship. A massive interview covers his origin story, the OpenAI/Meta bidding war, philosophy, and foundation transition. OpenClaw Foundation launched as 501(c)(3) non-profit, co-founded by Steinberger and Dave Morin (chair), with first full-time staff (Vincent Koc as chief architect) and board including Big Tech maintainers. Backed by OpenAI, NVIDIA, Microsoft, University of Michigan. 4.5M new users weekly. This formalizes independence after Steinberger joined OpenAI and signals institutional legitimacy. New data: Steinberger made 64,048 GitHub commits in a year, 58.66% to OpenClaw, demonstrating extraordinary development velocity.