OpenClaw will set up an independent foundation: Nvidia and ByteDance have joined Tencent and are in contact

On March 27, it was announced that OpenClaw will transfer to an independent foundation to continue open source operations. Founder and Austrian developer Peter Steinberger revealed in his first exclusive interview with Bloomberg after joining OpenAI that Nvidia and ByteDance have confirmed joining the foundation, and Tencent is in contact and has communicated with Microsoft. He said he was "trying to be Switzerland" in this matter. OpenAICEOSamAltman previously called Steinberger a "genius" and said that "the future will be extremely multi-agent and supporting open source is important to us." Steinberger joined the Codex team at OpenAI and revealed the direction of integration between Codex and OpenClaw: When agents are smart enough, they will write code on their own to enhance their own capabilities, and the boundary between "programming" and "non-programming" is disappearing."This is why we finally decided to integrate the two in OpenAI." The multi-agent future he describes is in which everyone has both a working Agent and a personal Agent. The two can call each other, but each guard the data boundary. During the exclusive interview, he also talked about the differences between China and the United States on the application of AIAgent: "In the United States, some companies will be fired if you use OpenClaw; in China, some companies will be fired if you don't use it." He said that China companies showed him a form listing the name of each employee, with a column next to it saying,"What's automated today?" We are actively promoting employees to use AI to increase efficiency by 10 times. In the United States, some companies have restricted employee use due to safety concerns. Steinberger believes that neither approach is perfect, but the United States can learn something from China's faster embrace of new technologies."This thing is too new, and the only way to learn it is to actually use and see it." During his time at GTC, he had exchanges with China companies such as MiniMax, Dark Side of the Moon, and Tencent. (Bloomberg)