Claim · 2026-02-15 · snapshot · Stated in source · Supported

Peter Steinberger announced in a blog post dated 14 February 2026 that he was joining OpenAI to work on bringing agents to everyone, and Sam Altman posted on X on 15 February 2026 that Steinberger was joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents.

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What it connects

Peter Steinberger → held role at → OpenAI

Where it appears

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Claim and evidence

Peter Steinbergerheld role at ↓OpenAI

Machine-checkedStated in sourceSupported

Supporting evidence: primary · 2 sources

Date: 2026-02-15 · snapshot Records dated 2026 →
Activity stage: announced
Role: not stated (to drive the next generation of personal agents)

Scope and limitsAn announced hire; neither text names a title or start date. Steinberger writes that OpenClaw will move to a foundation; that arrangement is not recorded here.

The evidence 02

primary sourceSupports the claim

OpenClaw, OpenAI and the future

steipete.me · 2026-02-14

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Source excerpt

“I’m joining OpenAI to work on bringing agents to everyone. OpenClaw will move to a foundation and stay open and independent.”

Location in source Opening summary (tl;dr)

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-29

Source details and check notes

Authors: Peter Steinberger
Version: Dated post, retrieved on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 e052182d46e05812e71054d3c22ada49ffdbb5fb355d208472c88ba8dcb3923e) directly from the publisher.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Peter Steinberger, “OpenClaw, OpenAI and the future”, 2026-02-14.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, lab genealogy 2 (research/lab-genealogy-2). The quotation (21 words) matched the retrieved text on 2026-10-29 and again in a fresh retrieval. Read directly from the publisher. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-31, item L167) re-read the record’s sources. No human editorial review.

primary sourceSupports the claim

Sam Altman post on X, 15 February 2026

X · 2026-02-15

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Paraphrase

Altman writes that Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents.

Location in source Post text, first sentence

How it was read Post text read through X’s syndication endpoint, which can truncate long notes

Machine-checked · 2026-10-29

Source details and check notes

Authors: Sam Altman
Version: Dated post, retrieved on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 37ac9d2706f2678b470d9fadfef6af55a0e48c7068af701cc731e8a0837d58a8) through X’s own syndication endpoint for the post’s text, which truncates long notes.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Sam Altman, “Sam Altman post on X, 15 February 2026”, 2026-02-15.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, lab genealogy 2 (research/lab-genealogy-2). The paraphrase’s verbatim anchor “Steinberger is joining OpenAI” matched the retrieved text on 2026-10-29 and again in a fresh retrieval. Read through X’s own syndication endpoint for the post’s text, which truncates long notes. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. The paraphrase is Selekoa’s; only the anchor is the source’s wording. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-31, item L167) re-read the record’s sources. No human editorial review.

Status and meaning

Editorial status. Machine-checked. Machines found this record and checked it against its sources; no person accepted it individually. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.

Relation. An institutional role with explicitly scoped time: snapshot, sourced interval, or unknown dates. No continuing appointment is implied.

Date. Date of Altman's post; Steinberger's post is dated 14 February 2026. Not a start date.

Record ID lg2-oa-steinberger-openai-2026