Steinberger, who founded and sold PDF toolkit company PSPDFKit to Nutrient in 2024, began OpenClaw as a weekend project in November 2025.
Orchestration over intelligence
Altman’s emphasis on multi-agent systems reflects a broader competitive shift in AI, according to analysts. The race is moving from model intelligence to runtime orchestration.
That orchestration layer, encompassing model coordination, tool invocation, persistent context management, connector standards, identity enforcement, policy controls, and human override mechanisms, is becoming the competitive battleground, Gogia said.
