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• @garrytan Garry Tan on x

  It's happening everywhere: roadmaps that stretch out for 2 years are getting done in a matter of months. This is the new normal. Software is going to get so much better from here. Except Apple. I think their software is still going to be mediocre.

• @steipete Peter Steinberger on x

  Shipped plenty fixes on ClawHub. Avatars and full names for more trust, better cli, faster skill loading, k/M numbers since ya'all are downloading like mad and lots other details.

• @steipete Peter Steinberger on x

  last one for today, 💬 imsg cli got some upgrades! new: Typing indicators, reactions and events, for all the iMessage claw gang BlueBubbles is a great alternative plugin (openclaw plugins list) Verdict's still out what will be the longer-term default. https://github.com/...

• @danielfoch Daniel Foch on x

  Developers are building for @openclaw faster than any other OS in history This is the next OS [image]

• @theonejvo Jamieson O'Reilly on x

  hot takes on the internet: @steipete got lucky “the luck”: 4am grinding [image]

• @haridigresses Hari Raghavan on x

  Peter Steinberger bootstrapped PSPDFKit over 10 years (gold-standard PDF library used by Box, Apple, even DocuSign). Insanely hard tech. IYKYK. I'd guess he's worth a couple hundred mill from that. If he goes to OpenAI... he might make more from OpenClaw, which is 3 months old.

• @steipete Peter Steinberger on x

  I signed the contract today with software my company built years ago. (now it's @nutrientdocs, still best for anything PDF)

• @jetskigrizzly @jetskigrizzly on x

  1 man. 84 days. $1B exit. Didn't even miss a gym day. The future is here

• @luke_pighetti Luke on x

  why is everyone saying OpenClaw was a $1B exit?

• @anquetil Martin on x

  calling it now - Anthropic launches a much better version of OpenClaw in the next two weeks while OpenAI does nothing

• @tmuxvim @tmuxvim on x

  what exactly did Anthropic miss out on? a claude code wrapper that wastes tokens like crazy?

• @steipete Peter Steinberger on x

  I'm joining @OpenAI to bring agents to everyone. @OpenClaw is becoming a foundation: open, independent, and just getting started.🦞 https://steipete.me/...

• @ibab Igor Babuschkin on x

  What's the best open alternative to OpenClaw right now? Doesn't make sense to put all your data into it if it's owned by OpenAI.

• @levie Aaron Levie on x

  If anyone was wondering if 2026 was the year of agents, OpenAI is bringing on the maker of Openclaw. This space is about to get very real.

• @om @om on x

  All right @sama congratulations for getting @steipete and having him help you build out Codex. Great news for all and even better he is not being Zucked. clawON

• @gdb Greg Brockman on x

  welcome @steipete to openai!

• @yuchenj_uw Yuchen Jin on x

  The “Open” in OpenAI means OpenClaw! Ironically Anthropic didn't buy it and banned it from using the Clawdbot name.

• @altryne Alex Volkov on x

  Say bye bye to your Claude max plans in OpenClaw 👀 Congrats Pete! Looking forward to seeing @openclaw improve!

• @om @om on x

  Why OpenAI getting OpenClaw in its clutches is a good thing. For the company, and for the Claw ecosystem. Some reasons, and a general reflection on the news/hype cycle in this Monday morning piece. https://om.co/... [image]

• @davemorin Dave Morin on x

  🦞 Been working with Peter Steinberger (@steipete) on the OpenClaw Foundation structure for weeks. A home for thinkers and hackers and those that want to own their data. Honored to serve as the founding independent board member. This community built something extraordinary, our

• @dabit3 Nader Dabit on x

  Maybe the fumble of the decade by @AnthropicAI. The most popular and fastest growing open source project of all time is not only named after you, but most users are power users of your product. Instead trying to collaborate or work with him they chose violence 😭 [image]

• @emollick Ethan Mollick on x

  Worth noting Claude Cowork is quite different from Claude Code (and even more so from agents like OpenClaw) from a security perspective. It runs in a VM with default-deny networking & hard isolation baked in A sign of a path forward for agents that will not terrify corporate IT.

• @austen Austen Allred on x

  So far as I can tell anyone sharing an acquisition price for OpenClaw has zero sources whatsoever and is relying on other tweets that simply made it up. Any guessing could be off by orders of magnitude in either direction.

• @christyhwchoi Christy Choi on x

  Anthropic built the best model. A developer built the best distribution layer on top of it. Anthropic's lawyers killed the brand connection. The developer joined OpenAI. Infrastructure that alienates its own distribution layer is infrastructure that loses. Same pattern in crypto,

• @dvassallo Daniel Vassallo on x

  The trademark lawyers at Anthropic must be must be bursting with pride over their cease and desist victory.

• @zackkorman Zack Korman on x

  AI Bros: SaaS is dead you can just vibecode your own Salesforce replacement. Also AI Bros: This thin AI wrapper is god and we must protect it. All AI agents must use the -claw suffix.

• @bucknsf Buck on x

  Amazing OpenAI couldn't just vibe code this

• @mirkogarozzo Mirko Garozzo on x

  Ok Claude - Build a startup, make it viral and sell it to OpenAI once valuation reaches $10b. Make no mistakes

• @jquinonero Joaquin Quiñonero Candela on x

  Welcome to OpenAI, @steipete! Also your 3.5-hour conversation with Lex is one of the most inspiring things I've listened to in a long while. You almost had me thinking you were going to Meta. So glad you're here.

• @sytaylor Simon Taylor on x

  Its like Apple buying Napster instead of building iTunes

• @alxfazio Alex Fazio on x

  bro is getting a million dollar salary plus stonks for a wrapper and you are here with us retards

• @romainhuet Romain Huet on x

  Proud to continue supporting @steipete and @openclaw in this new chapter, as we have since day one. Huge day for open source and personal agents! The claw is the law 🦞

• @dahongfei Da Hongfei on x

  Big move: @steipete joins @OpenAI — a signal that agents are becoming the next primary interface. Even more interesting: @OpenClaw evolving into an open, independent foundation keeps the ecosystem robust. The agent race just shifted from “if” to “how fast.” And for agents to do

• @themotelman Michael Bowie on x

  Huge congratulations to @steipete! Probably the first one man billion dollar company/deal just happened. What a fumble by @AnthropicAI

• @krausefx Felix Krause on x

  In Mid December Peter invited me and helped install this little thing called Clawdis on my old MacBook. So proud and happy of Peter's journey and his no-bs approach of building and shipping what he believes is right. Can't wait to see what's next

• @iannuttall Ian Nuttall on x

  Jan 27th: rebrand from Clawdbot to Moltbot (now @OpenClaw) after Anthropic send a legal letter Feb 15th: 19 DAYS LATER ACQUIHIRED BY OPENAI... A generational fumble by Anthropic here.

• @hsvsphere @hsvsphere on x

  just shoot me in the head already brah 🥀

• @steipete Peter Steinberger on x

  Alright, back to coding. The Claw doesn't ship itself... yet.

• @thsottiaux Tibo on x

  Excited to work with Peter Steinberger to build the future of agents for everyone and to continue to improve Codex in leaps and bounds. We are committed to OSS, continuing to make OpenClaw flourish and bringing agents to life in a way that is fun, safe and highly productive.

• @rayfernando1337 Ray Fernando on x

  “So there's this thing called OpenClaw and this lobster is going to change the world...” [image]

• @steipete Peter Steinberger on x

  Open means Open. 🦞

• @anothercohen Alex Cohen on x

  Just in case Gen Z is trying to understand what happened today: Claude was mogging OpenAI for weeks. Then this gymcel dev ships Clawdbot which was the fastest growing OSS thing ever, absolute looksmax for the whole ecosystem. Anthropic tries to dairygoon him with legal. Dev

• @filipe_almeida Filipe Almeida on x

  We're watching a Cambrian explosion in AI, and it didn't start with OpenClaw. It didn't start with MoltBook. Those were simply two organisms that adapted quickly and rose to prominence in this new evolutionary race. The inflection point was roughly two months ago, when GPT-5.2

• @scottjduffy Scott Duffy on x

  I'm so happy for him. @OpenAI hires the developer of @OpenClaw to work on agents. @AnthropicAI really messed up this Clawdbot opportunity.

• @toddsaunders Todd Saunders on x

  Love seeing non profit foundations do M&A

• @cofoundersnik CoFounders Nik on x

  Today, @steipete became the first confirmed (long theorized) one-person Unicorn! OpenClaw launched as a weekend side project by less than 3 months ago. Here's the timeline: Nov 25: First GitHub commit. Starts as a weekend side project Jan 25: Goes nuclear. 9k stars in

• @theprimeagen @theprimeagen on x

  clawdbought

• @edzitron Ed Zitron on x

  Excite acquires Bluemountain

• @aakashgupta Aakash Gupta on x

  One guy, coding alone at 5am, built the fastest-growing GitHub repo in history.  194,000 stars.  Faster than React, Linux, and Kubernetes combined.  OpenAI...couldn't build it first.  Steinberger connected Claude's API to WhatsApp...Three months later, Meta's Zuckerberg is DMing …

• @fidjissimo Fidji Simo on x

  Welcome, @steipete! Can't wait to build with you.

• @joannastern Joanna Stern on x

  The rebrand is obvious... OpencAIw

• @raphaelschaad Raphael Schaad on x

  I bet this causes lots of VC tears and angry OSS folks. But think about this: - Peter showed the future and lots of awesome startups are starting to bloom from this. Invest in those! - Peter created one of the most exciting OSS projects in years. The community is vibrant and

• @gregisenberg Greg Isenberg on x

  Peter published the Clawdbot project on GitHub November 25th 2025, 82 days ago Is this the first one person, one billion dollar company?

• @bullyesq @bullyesq on x

  Imagine starting a project and selling it for like a billion 3 months later. Unbelievable. Cant imagine.

• @bilawalsidhu Bilawal Sidhu on x

  The clawdbot —> open claw rename foreshadowed it all.  Zuck must not be too happy.  And interesting that Anthropic didn't even make a play.  So what does this mean?  I suspect new functionality keeps coming to open claw first - and the best stuff graduates to chatgpt proper.  A n…

• @dylanabruscato Dylan Abruscato on x

  ICYMI: here's our full interview with @steipete from less than three weeks ago His first post-launch interview and our most-watched Spotify episode by far [video]

• @badlogicgames Mario Zechner on x

  pretty interesting to see all those “anthropic fumbled” posts. anthropic's been the only lab with a pretty coherent product strategy. can argue about execution, but at least they have a plan. that includes preexisting products competing with openclaw. they don't need peter.

• @alexfinn Alex Finn on x

  Your initial gut reaction might be anger and rage, but I promise you are mistaken.  This is a win for EVERYONE involved (including you):  • OpenClaw remains open source  • The team gets way more resources to build incredible products and advance the vision of OpenClaw  • OpenAI g…

• @benjamindekr Benjamin De Kraker on x

  I do wonder if Anthropic regrets not courting @steipete more aggressively to get him on Team Claude. On the other hand, this could have been purposeful since (per Pete's interview on Lex) OpenClaw is deeply unprofitable. Interesting to see how this plays out.

• @chrismaconi Chris Maconi on x

  Really (like, really, really) disappointed to see this. This is going to create a vacuum for someone to come along and fill. OpenAI is the last place anyone wanted this project to land. From being associated with Claude, to then being snapped up by OpenAI. Wild timeline.

• @timhaldorsson Tim Haldorsson on x

  this is massive for agent adoption this hiring might accelerate the world GDP with a percentage over the next years.

• @jessicalessin Jessica Lessin on x

  Altman confirmed my scoop. https://www.theinformation.com/ ...

• @kareldoostrlnck Karel on x

  Welcome @steipete ! Lots of interesting opportunities for user signals in personal agents 👀

• @apoorva_mehta Apoorva Mehta on x

  this is a material event. first, we had browsers. now we will have executers.

• @romainhuet Romain Huet on x

  Thrilled to welcome @steipete to OpenAI!

• @swyx @swyx on x

  haha, called it [image]

• @steipete Peter Steinberger on x

  @iwantlambo yah they only sent love letters from legal

• @meta_alchemist @meta_alchemist on x

  Feels like OpenClaw will be acquired by OpenAI. Events around this has been quite interesting: > @steipete calls his open source agent operating system Clawd > works on it day and night for it > clear tribute to Claude > Clawd gets popular > Claude strikes with lawyers > Peter

• r/BetterOffline r on reddit

  OpenAI have acquired OpenClaw

• r/OpenAI r on reddit

  OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI |  TechCrunch

• r/clawdbot r on reddit

  OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI

• r/openclaw r on reddit

  OpenClaw Creator, Peter Steinberger, to Join OpenAI