OpenAI hires the creator of OpenClaw and Moltbook, the social network for artificial intelligence

Since Austrian researcher Peter Steinberger created OpenClaw in November, the tool has generated great enthusiasm.

Moltbook has also given a lot to talk about, a kind of social network similar to Reddit and created for OpenClaw agents, where chatbots chat.

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However, there were also those who questioned whether humans were manipulating the bots’ posts.

With OpenClaw, you can send emails or buy online; Although the assistant also poses risks in terms of cybersecurity, some users warned.

Users can download OpenClaw, connect it to generative AI models like ChatGPT, and communicate with their AI assistant via WhatsApp or Telegram, just like they would with any friend or coworker.

Steinberger “joins OpenAI to lead the next generation of personal agents”Altman indicated in X on Sunday.

“He is a genius with a lot of incredible ideas about the future of very intelligent agents that interact with each other to do very useful things for people,” he said.

“We expect this to quickly become the core of our product offering,” added Altman, who specified that OpenClaw will remain an open source project within a foundation supported by OpenAI.

“The future is going to be extremely multi-agent and it is important for us to support open source as part of that.”

Only a small percentage of OpenAI’s nearly one billion users subscribe to paid services.so the company is trying to find new sources of income.

It has begun testing ads and sponsored content on ChatGPT, which has raised concerns regarding respect for user privacy.