Peter Steinberger

Peter Steinberger (born 1986) is an Austrian computer programmer and entrepreneur. He is known as the creator of OpenClaw, an open-source artificial intelligence agent, and as the founder and former CEO of PSPDFKit.

Career During his studies in Vienna University of Technology, he established himself as an early adopter of Apple's iOS platform. In 2010, Steinberger founded PSPDFKit, which provides document processing and PDF frameworks for mobile and web applications. Others who helped create PSPDFkit as a company include Jonathan Rhyne and Martin Schürrer.

In November 2025, he released an open-source project initially named Clawdbot (later renamed Moltbot, and finally OpenClaw). OpenClaw is an autonomous AI agent that interacts with users through messaging platforms such as WhatsApp, Telegram, and Discord.

In February 2026, he announced he would be joining OpenAI and rejecting an offer to join Meta.

Steinberger is scheduled to give a talk at TEDAI Vienna in 2026.

Personal life Steinberger is "from a rural area in Austria." In 2026, he said he was moving to the United States, saying that there was too much regulation and "scolding" stifling AI development in Europe.