Peter Steinberger
Peter Steinberger is an Austrian computer programmer and entrepreneur who currently works as a member of the technical staff at OpenAI, a position he has held since February 2026. He is best known as the creator of OpenClaw, an open-source autonomous AI agent that operates across messaging platforms such as WhatsApp, Telegram, and Discord, and which is now maintained by the independent OpenClaw Foundation. Prior to his work in AI, Steinberger founded and led PSPDFKit (now Nutrient), a document processing and PDF framework company, achieving a nine-figure exit before briefly retiring and then returning to focus on AI agents.
“he's, I believe, in his early 40s and he'd been a dev manager. He'd worked on startups before... he knows what to build”
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