Europe produces more AI professionals per head than America. Peter Steinberger is Austrian.
Number 44 was OpenClaw, the open-source AI agent that became the fastest-growing project on GitHub.
OpenAI just hired the team behind this. Peter Steinberger and the OpenClaw crew are now inside.
This isn’t just an acqui-hire; it’s a strategic move to dominate the agentic layer. Anthropic has Claude Code. Google has its internal agentic tools. OpenAI is assembling the Avengers of autonomous code execution.
Expect ‘Operator’ to get very good, very fast.
