IBL News | New York
Peter Steinberger, the Austrian programmer who created OpenClaw [in the picture], said, “2026 will be the year of agents.”
“2023-2024 was the year of ChatGPT; last year was the year of the coding agent, this year’s going to be the year of the general agent,” he explained.
Jensen Huang, CEO at Nvidia, last month hailed the tool—whose symbol is a bright red lobster—as “the next ChatGPT.”
However, the buzz has raised concerns about the cybersecurity risks of allowing AI systems, which are vulnerable to hacking, to access personal data such as bank details.
Steinberger built OpenClaw in November while playing around with AI coding tools to organize his digital life.
He has since been hired by OpenAI “to drive the next generation of personal agents,” Sam Altman said in February.
“The next AI innovation could come from someone who just wants to have fun,” Steinberger said.