Welcome to the podcast. I'm your host, Jaden Schaefer. Today on the show, we are talking about one of the craziest stories in AI.

Perhaps the first time we've seen a completely single-founded, vibe-coded startup sell for a billion dollars, although the price take on that is a little bit speculative.

And that is the story of OpenClaw. And the creator Peter Steinberger has announced he is now joining

OpenAI who's going to be pulling in a bunch of the tech from OpenClaw into their own products.

This is a absolutely wild story that we're going to get into on the podcast today.

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All right, let's get into the story.

So I think this is a really fascinating story.

So OpenClaught

originally was an open source project. The tagline that was released with this is AI that

actually does things. It was running on Claude originally. And essentially, it was just an agent.

It was an open source project that was an agent that could take over your computer. It would

have access to everything on your computer and it would just accomplish tasks for you.

It was a lot of the same technology that we see with Claude Code and a lot of these other programs.

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