Meet Peter Steinberger: Austrian engineer behind Moltbook, a social media platform where AI bots chat freely, even about humans

Peter Steinberger has been garnering a lot of attention and praise for his platform OpenClaw. OpenClaw is an open-source AI agent framework/software (originally named Clawdbot then briefly Moltbot and now OpenClaw) that lets users run autonomous assistants locally and connect them to messaging platforms like WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, etc.

OpenClaw is interestingly also the platform responsible for the creation for MoltBook. Which has been in the news lately. Moltbook is a social network for AI agents (primarily ones powered by OpenClaw) to post, comment and interact with each other like a Reddit-style forum. Humans can observe but don’t post directly.