Europe Chased OpenClaw Creator To OpenAI

Sam Alolman has announced that Peter Steinberger will be who's the creator of OpenClaw will be joining Open AI in potentially a way to incorporate Open Claw in Chbt. Peter Steinberger joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents. So we don't really know what this entails just yet to be fair. Open Claw will live in a foundation as an open-source project that OpenAI will continue to support. So, they were already um supporting it presumably from this uh from this announcement here. So, great news for Pier Steinberger. Um, I checked out this interview with uh Lex Freriedman where he talks quite a lot about the decision cuz you know he he goes on to describe that he had so many offers from all the major labs when it comes to uh hiring him and it was a tough choice but he doesn't announce it in this video but he said that um yeah that Meta and Open AAI were the two people that he was considering, which is interesting. Maybe from a personal morale perspective, if you didn't know, the the journey of um Claudebot, which is what it was originally called, got a cease and desist letter from Anthropic. Because, you know, there's a part of me that agrees, part of me that kind of disagrees completely cuz you've got open code, you've got now open claw. These, you know, are people getting confused with these because they're open AI? I don't know. However, I did feel like the video that I made about Open Claw or Clawbot as it was at that point, I did have to say and it did confuse me. What has this got to do with Anthropic? Where what's the ties? Like I was looking for these ties that just did not exist. And uh again from this interview with Lex Freriedman, he talks about how his V1 of this was based on the fir they he bought like a $100 subscription plan to Anthropic and gave it to his friend so that he could use it. And that was the first time he saw someone else and was like, "Holy this is a big deal." So it the name did come from the fact that it was anthropic related. It was part of the it was the the intentional ecosystem that that that it gave birth to. Basically doesn't really matter. That all being said he went with open AI and uh one of he says one of the things that he wanted to maintain or ensure is that openclaw remains open source. Does this mean that Meta wanted to take not make it closed source but own open claw? I don't know. However, that was one that was the main thing he wanted to keep that that uh open claw is open source and it is it's part of a foundation. It will be continued to support. A lot of people are saying now that it's downhill. We we don't know what the future is and I'm not necessarily going to speak to those things but I I have faith that actually it will remain an open source project and you said that he's actually looking to not maybe not hire maybe you can tell us about that. Uh I'm looking for open claw maintainers. If you love open source have experience with running larger projects are security minded and want to help drop me an email. So he's looking for somebody. Um he said also in that interview a lot of people are trying to help you know with uh pull requests and he he says like these are prompt requests uh for a lot of people. It's just like people who don't know coding and but he finds it valuable still for people like us like me you know haven't done pull requests yet uh to do it sometime just do it with AI still like you know starting to do it which is interesting and now he's looking for somebody more serious somebody who can help and apparently a lot of people are DMing and replying here he's saying like send me the email. But yeah, the project um I also saw that is getting uh updates now. You can like trigger it from your Apple Watch. So, it's moving really fast. Yeah. And and more importantly, I was going to mention as well these updates like they're working with a lot of security is obviously the biggest thing that's the worry. And what I noticed that if if you go to Claude Hub, you'll see that there is actually security scans that are happening on everything, vulnerability checks. With every update, there are vulnerability patches and fixes. And if you go to browse, hide suspicious even. I mean, that's a minor feature, but the point is it's a lot of security updates that going into this this thing. So, I'm excited about it. And and I wonder as well on a lot of my videos, everyone's like rejecting this tool because they assumed it's going to hack you or they hear that it's going to hack you. It's not happened yet, you know? And it's not to say it is still an opensource single person vibe code. It's not to say that we we freaking don't know that there's risks involved, but it's good to hear that nothing has happened thus far. So yeah, another thing that I found really cool uh from his interview was that he managed to move really fast even though at the start he was like just playing around with it and just like feeling how it is and maybe sharing it with friends or like he said he he mentioned he used it while traveling. But once it gained traction, he managed to make updates uh to add like Discord, to add like Telegram, to add so much more. He he managed to keep up and like basically help with the project growing. And he also mentioned how hard it was to basically didn't sleep much because it exploded. They have like like 300k plus uh followers on Twitter. It's crazy. Like the amount of interest that he's getting is insane. And that's where you start to panic about about the vulnerabilities or the application cuz you can you know I won't I won't lie and say like when I release something there's there's always that thing in the back of your mind. It's like, have I, you know, it's it's nerve-wracking like releasing something out there cuz there are people a lot smarter than you and a lot more malicious than you who will try and take down. And what if you've accidentally left something in there? You know, no one's perfect. And when you get successful very very quickly in any in any walk of life, when you get that many eyeballs on you, you suddenly you feel exposed, you feel naked, you feel vulnerable. So, I can only imagine the amount of um emotional trauma he probably went through. And he's held up pretty well. He seems like a really chilled out nice me well-meaning guy. So, there was also a conversation about him leaving uh EU because as you know, he is Austrian and he had this interview. I I I think this is I don't know this is an Austrian um TV media whatever and it was painful to watch. I watched it. I I I don't want to uh play this because of copyright. I don't know how it is with nonyou stuff. Um but yeah this um interview was extremely painful for me to watch because the entire time there is no like even a single like interest in what can this technology do. Everything is what can it destroy? the whole focus is on how bad this could go uh and not on what could it also get could it uh do right and he's holding up really well he's very chill and he's just explaining the the nature of things like how AI can hallucinate how AI can be you know everything that we know about AI that can go wrong we we know it it's it's nothing new but it seems like in the EU they they cannot shift their focus away from that and it's stuck like the EU is stuck in that point. Um so here he answered uh let me just show the translation it's easier. Uh well starting with this one it says like Peter had this um interview and he's going to open AAI. Why couldn't EU not hold him this talent? why it it wasn't about money for him obviously right that's the tweet and he answers he says in the USA most people are enthusiastic in Europe I get insulted people scream regulation and responsibility and if I really build a company here then I get to struggle with things like investment protection laws employee co-determination and uh paralyzing labor regulation s at open AI most people work six seven days uh six seven baby six seven days a week and get paid and get paidly yes flame him in the comments my younger brother he's 18 and he shakes his hand his head when I do uh six, seven days a week and get paid accordingly. With us, that's illegal, which is true and it's very interesting. I I understand. Okay, we need to be responsible and regulations. I I'm not necessarily against them, but we I I believe we have like we have too many of them. Like, you cannot do any. And I've been I've seen this with my own eyes times and times again. I've been living in Germany for 10 years. I see many people starting like trying to start a business. They get stuck at uh like even the the footer notes that they have to make for their websites and all the cookies and all the protection laws and they they can't even start focus on their business and service and like learning because the law is just insane. Anyway, so there is a conversation around that and it's you know it is what it is. Europe obviously is not able to have somebody like him which is sad in a way. I mean yeah this is another tweet that I found interesting. As most of you know I'm from Germany so I was able to watch the entire interview with Peter Steinberger on site inbuilt. It was incredibly painful. Yes. uh not because of Peter's answer but because the journalist questions uh typically German Austrian almost exclusively revolved around whether we should be afraid of AI whether data privacy is being protected uh being respected uh what dangers open claw poses and so on yeah that was that was basically the whole interview the hottest topic in the world in the world was talked down instead of spark sparkling curiosity and enthusiasm among viewers. The program ultimately only stirred up more anxiety and resentment a demoning uh in decment of Europe which is yeah we see he left there is a balance yeah like we we do need to take it seriously but there's no you can do it in such a way surely where it's like this is fantastic like what like yeah just having a balance of the the good and the bad, do you know what I mean? But I haven't seen the interview. I'd like to see the interview, but um yeah, it's in German and I mean I'm not native speaker and he has an accent as I don't know if it's an Austrian accent, but it's the the interview is pretty it's yeah it you need to watch it especially if you live in Europe or you care about uh about the future of Europe. Uh yeah, the next Open AI won't happen in Europe. just like this this interview just kind of shows the the vibes around here. This is part of a larger conversation on my show, Command AI, which we stream live every single week. We discuss the news and all things related to AI in the world of design and web. Catch us next week and join in the banter.