Peter Steinberger, the Austrian developer behind OpenClaw is joining OpenAI to lead personal agent development. If you've been following the OpenClaw saga (Clawdbot → Moltbot → OpenClaw), this is the biggest twist yet. Both Meta and OpenAI made offers reportedly in the billions. Zuckerberg reached out on WhatsApp, and apparently the two spent time arguing about whether Claude or Codex was better. Steinberger chose OpenAI because "teaming up with OpenAI is the fastest way to bring this to everyone." The project stays open source under an independent foundation. Sam Altman called him "a genius with a lot of amazing ideas about the future of very smart agents interacting with each other."

Today in AI:
→ OpenClaw goes cloud-native on Kimi
→ Anthropic's India bet is already paying off
→ How to set up your first Kimi Claw agent

Let’s dive in..

Here's the thing about OpenClaw that I keep coming back to: it started as a weekend project from a guy who'd sold his PDF company and spent three years figuring out what to do next. Now OpenAI's hiring the creator and China's biggest AI lab is building infrastructure around it.

Moonshot AI just launched Kimi Claw a browser-native version of OpenClaw that runs 24/7 right on kimi.com. No Mac Mini in your closet. No SSH-ing into a virtual machine. You open a browser tab, click deploy, and your AI agent is live.

The convenience is what Moonshot packed around the release:

On the same day Steinberger announced he's joining OpenAI, Moonshot shipped their own native OpenClaw implementation. Both American and Chinese AI labs are now building on the same open-source agent framework. OpenClaw stopped being one developer's side project a while ago.

For your team: If you've been curious about OpenClaw but didn't want to deal with self-hosting, Kimi Claw removes that barrier entirely. Worth setting up a test instance to see where personal agents are heading.

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I wasn't expecting this one. Anthropic, the company that's been laser-focused on safety research and frontier models just made a big bet on India.

Anthropic opened a Bengaluru office, its second in Asia after Tokyo. The numbers back up the move. India is already Claude's second-largest market globally, behind only the US. And Anthropic's run-rate revenue in India has doubled in the four months since they announced their expansion in October.

The enterprise adoption numbers are what got me:

Nearly half of all Claude usage in India is coding and math tasks: app development, legacy modernization, production-grade software deployment. This is engineering infrastructure, not chatbot usage.

But the part that surprised me most: the Indian government launched an official MCP server through the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation giving AI tools direct access to national statistics data. And Swiggy (India's DoorDash equivalent) built MCP integrations for grocery ordering and dining reservations through Claude. All of this is in production today.

For your team: If you're evaluating Claude for enterprise deployment, India's adoption wave is the closest thing to a real-world case study at scale.

Kimi Claw puts OpenClaw in the cloud so your AI agent runs 24/7 without managing any hardware. Here's how to get started:

Best use cases for Kimi Claw:

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