{"id":993902,"date":"2026-02-19T11:18:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T05:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=993902"},"modified":"2026-02-19T11:18:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T05:48:06","slug":"founder-of-ai-company-that-mark-zuckerberg-spent-2-billion-plus-on-makes-a-long-clarification-on-openclaw-that-sam-altman-just-bought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/19\/founder-of-ai-company-that-mark-zuckerberg-spent-2-billion-plus-on-makes-a-long-clarification-on-openclaw-that-sam-altman-just-bought\/","title":{"rendered":"Founder of AI company that Mark Zuckerberg spent $2 billion-plus on makes a long clarification on OpenClaw that Sam Altman just bought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just days after Sam Altman announced that OpenAI had hired OpenClaw&#8217;s solo creator Peter Steinberger, the co-founder of a rival AI agent company has stepped in with a pointed clarification. Yichao &#8216;Peak&#8217; Ji, co-founder and Chief Scientist at Manus\u2014which Meta acquired for over $2 billion earlier this year\u2014says his company&#8217;s new personal agent mode has no connection to OpenClaw whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>The timing matters. Manus launched its personal agent mode on Telegram shortly after OpenAI&#8217;s acquisition of OpenClaw made headlines, and the internet quickly started drawing comparisons between the two. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just days after Sam Altman announced that OpenAI had hired OpenClaw&#8217;s solo creator Peter Steinberger, the co-founder of a rival AI agent company has stepped in with a pointed clarification. Yichao &#8216;Peak&#8217; Ji, co-founder and Chief Scientist at Manus\u2014which Meta acquired for over $2 billion earlier this year\u2014says his company&#8217;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&#8217;s acquisition of OpenClaw made headlines, and the internet quickly started drawing comparisons between the two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}