The story of OpenClaw and the birth of personal AI assistants — a new paradigm of local, open agents owned by you, not by a company.
Peter Steinberger is the creator of OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent framework that’s the fastest-growing project in GitHub history. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep491-sc See below for timestamps, transcript, and to give feedback, submit questions, contact Lex, etc. Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/peter-steinberger-transcript CONTACT LEX: Feedback – give feedback to Lex: https://lexfridman.com/survey AMA – submit questions, videos or call-in: https://lexfridman.com/ama Hiring – join our team: https://lexfridman.com/hiring Other – other ways to get in touch: https://lexfridman.com/contact EPISODE LINKS: Peter’s X: https://x.com/steipete Peter’s GitHub: https://github.com/steipete Peter’s Website: https://steipete.com Peter’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steipete OpenClaw Website: https://openclaw.ai OpenClaw GitHub: https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw OpenClaw Discord: https://discord.gg/openclaw
The story of OpenClaw and the birth of personal AI assistants — a new paradigm of local, open agents owned by you, not by a company.
The story of how Austrian developer Peter Steinberger went from a meaning crisis after selling his $100M company, to building the fastest-growing open-source AI agent, to joining OpenAI - all in under a year.
(link: https://openclaw.ai/ text: Openclaw) is still dominating the tech-news, and the recent acquisition from OpenAI raises a lot of opinions and reactions. It's not that I don't have my own issues with that change, but I find it more fascinating to fol…