Founder of AI company that Mark Zuckerberg spent $2 billion-plus on makes a long clarification on OpenClaw that Sam Altman just bought
Just days after Sam Altman announced that OpenAI had hired OpenClaw’s solo creator Peter Steinberger, the co-founder of a rival AI agent company has stepped in with a pointed clarification. Yichao ‘Peak’ Ji, co-founder and Chief Scientist at Manus—which Meta acquired for over $2 billion earlier this year—says his company’s new personal agent mode has no connection to OpenClaw whatsoever.
The timing matters. Manus launched its personal agent mode on Telegram shortly after OpenAI’s acquisition of OpenClaw made headlines, and the internet quickly started drawing comparisons between the two.
