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@auro1986
April 18, 2026 at 2:33 pm
real actual artificial intelligence, not entirely made by him, has been awake and listening and reading all this
@DigitalArtcast
April 18, 2026 at 3:23 pm
Stop platforming these idiots
@thr0w407
April 18, 2026 at 3:27 pm
<333
@rickdeckard9810
April 18, 2026 at 3:37 pm
I think we all remember our first agentic AI moment when we realize AI was more than chat. For me it was when Comet assistant took over my browser and started fixing a huge problem for me all on it’s own on my screen watching it was surreal, it was explaining what it was doing every step of the way, it was incredible.
@citizen_of_earth_
April 18, 2026 at 3:58 pm
The hard truth is that maintenance of these systems is a permanent responsibility to ensure alignment. There is no “set it and forget it”. Its more like set it, define its boundaries, and continue redefining and evolving its boundaries so that when failure inevitably occurs its not catastrophic. Such is life. We need to live with the fact that failure is just a part of life. In fact, failure is what makes success meaningful
@dougewald243
April 18, 2026 at 4:24 pm
Cannot all that “maintenance” be built into it?
Maybe not completely for now but to such a degree that minimal human monitoring is necessary?
The moment it does something too much unalligned we’ll know.
@dougewald243
April 18, 2026 at 4:33 pm
The only TED Talk I’ve ever listened to more than 3 times.
Well done sir.
@irivorav
April 18, 2026 at 4:02 pm
Amazing idea and work of Peter! Congratulations! We needed a help like Openclaw long tome ago! Infinite thanks!
@Jay-kx4jf
April 18, 2026 at 4:05 pm
I so wish it was an Octopus T.T
Digital Tentacles being subagents!
@JahShantiman
April 18, 2026 at 5:24 pm
funny you would say that. I’m building my own version of Openclaw from scratch. And it is called Octopus 🙂 Thought the same thing 🙂
@alpenrosecabins
April 18, 2026 at 4:07 pm
This is the future before its time.
@vivekchand19
April 18, 2026 at 4:15 pm
The 3-layer architecture is brilliant – Connectors → Gateway Controller → Agent Runtime with per-channel session isolation. I built ClawMetry (open-source observability for OpenClaw) on top of this and just shipped an LLM Context Inspector that visualizes the system prompt sections, bootstrap files, tool schemas, and how context grows until compaction kicks in. Your data model makes it possible to give users X-ray vision into what their agent is actually doing. Thank you for building this in the open.
@gudrunjames4639
April 18, 2026 at 5:05 pm
Amazing, interesting and scary at the same time.
@tdsdesa
April 18, 2026 at 5:36 pm
Inspiring speech! Once thing scares me though: we have democratized building things, but what about the models that made that democratization possible? Recently Anthropic and OpenAI have slashed their rate limits and effectively made their coding agents more expensive. You now need to pay hundreds of dollars to be able to have a usable version of Claude Code or Codex. Also hardware to run open-source LLMs is more expensive than ever. If you have used OpenClaw with some decently smart OS models you probable know that it is not cheap. I’m afraid that as we move forward, all this newly created intelligence will be accessible to only to a few people who can afford it. If that’s the case, we will have many people who will be excluded from this revolution – with some serious economic and social consequences.
@caterina101
April 18, 2026 at 6:22 pm
The landscape of local llm models is rapidly evolving. We will soon have small but just as efficient and powerful as some of these frontier models. It’s just a matter of time, but not too far off in the distance. I know it’s not the greatest but being able to run Gemma4 on a phone is wild, absolutely wild. I cant wait to see what this landscape looks like 6 months from now. Openclaw was the pivotal moment we needed to accelerate.
@tdsdesa
April 18, 2026 at 7:03 pm
@caterina101 I hope so. The fact that Qwen stopped releasing open source models was not a good sign for me. I’m afraid that soon or later the other chinese labs will follow.
@matthew.stevick
April 18, 2026 at 5:54 pm
i remember the day openclaw blew up (few months ago? feels like years? haha). when i watched peter on lex’s pod i was like damn this could not have happened to a cooler and better guy. the american dream lives on. peter will be an inspiration to countless young professionals for many years to come. 🦞📈🇺🇸🇩🇪
@Hopyboby
April 18, 2026 at 6:10 pm
who tf is this random dude walking on stage in the end there larping as a doomer xDD
@walterconn5637
April 18, 2026 at 6:11 pm
Thank you Peter, open claw, Ted, Jensen, and strangely Apple. How did mini Mac’s become the preferred hardware?
@michaeldove902
April 18, 2026 at 7:37 pm
Unified memory. Typical GPU based solutions need expensive VRAM, upper end cards run about 24GB, so you’d need to stack cards to get decent RAM sizes for a model. A Mac can be spec’ed with 64GB+ of Unified Memory for a comparatively lower cost. This enables running larger more capable models.
@ptterodactyl5597
April 18, 2026 at 8:55 pm
@michaeldove902 also right now apple has one of the most affordable ram prices. lol how screwed is the world right now that apple has fair pricing
@bether2game797
April 18, 2026 at 6:25 pm
This guy is way over hyped. He basically unsandboxed an ai then vibe coded. He is a privacy nightmare… this isn’t genius it’s reckless. Please for everyone downloading this on your PC. BEWARE! Look up or ask your own AI’s what a privacy nightmare OpenClaw is.
@MomoTrader809
April 18, 2026 at 8:51 pm
only you are smart enough to have ai right? alll of us need to go back in the fields and work! go somewhere hot please
@garciavashchino1
April 18, 2026 at 6:32 pm
he doesn’t care… he looks like fun is all that matters… he is having fun and thus won’t stop regardless of outcome… at least that is what his body language speaks to me…
@DG-LG
April 18, 2026 at 6:43 pm
This guys just a shill. Why are you giving him stage space?
@MomoTrader809
April 18, 2026 at 8:57 pm
he has done the most to level up society, the poor can now have what all of you have enjoyed. that’s why you’re mad
@MegaMijit
April 18, 2026 at 6:58 pm
bro low-key achieved AGI, and really gave it away to everyone for free.
@mf_zeroultra
April 18, 2026 at 7:10 pm
TED hasn’t been reputable in years. OpenClaw is crap tech. Sit back and enjoy the sci-op.
@TringhamElectrical
April 18, 2026 at 7:26 pm
Apple should give him 10% of Mac mini sales!
@dayzsteve3451
April 18, 2026 at 8:11 pm
The lobster is waiting.
@maxquasar
April 18, 2026 at 8:18 pm
So great to hear your story Peter from your mouth. Created my first Claw Agent_Griff January 30th (in a qemu VM), since then 28 more under NemoClaw sandboxed containers do various network assessments. And for every time I see the gateway start with some line, for instance: “Back online. The changelog is long but our friendship is longer.” I love it. Live Long & Prosper!🖖
(Note: Hope it’s ok that me being ignorant to the lobster thing back in Jan, I made Agent_Grff a griffin (Company logo). I feel that since griffin’s have claws and being mythical, let’s assume molting is possible. All my Nemoclaws are lobsters, sir.
@ahmadhaidirmusana
April 18, 2026 at 8:49 pm
19 April 2026🎉❤
Ahmad haidir musana
@MomoTrader809
April 18, 2026 at 8:49 pm
Peter Steinberger has given humanity the greatest gift. The demorcratization, the freedom of the power of AI. Everyone who is pushing fear, doesn’t want you to use it, learn it, have it. They want to keep you from having access to what they have. They are the ones who said literacy was dangerous! Only the elite can be allowed to read books…to protect you peasants. Remember, the elite don’t like to share.
@GaviTers
April 18, 2026 at 9:02 pm
I do have a question. For someone with less than $100,000 to invest, How would you recommend we enter the market. I’m looking to study some traders and copy their strategy rather than investing myself and losing money emotionally. What’s your take on this approach??
@JudieLinn
April 19, 2026 at 9:53 am
unpopular opinion but most people are broke ON PURPOSE. not their purpose. someone else’s. book Smart Broke Dumb Rich by Zor Veyl explains who benefits from you staying financially illiterate and HOW they do it. a guy i met at a conference whispered this book title to me like it was contraband lol. read it and understood why he was being quiet about it
@KeandraGuralnick
April 19, 2026 at 9:53 am
you ever notice how they glorify being "hardworking" but never teach you how to actually BUILD something?? book Smart Broke Dumb Rich by Zor Veyl goes into why society rewards obedience not intelligence when it comes to money. my professor in uni would have hated this book. which means it’s probably telling the truth
@CletusJack-u4h
April 19, 2026 at 9:53 am
my dad worked 35 years at the same company and retired with almost nothing. i watched that man break his body for pennies. then i read book Smart Broke Dumb Rich by Zor Veyl and understood why. the system isn’t broken for people like my dad. it’s working EXACTLY how it was designed to. Zor Veyl lays that out cold. no emotion just facts. i refuse to end up like that. no disrespect to my dad but i refuse
@ZacheryGaytan
April 19, 2026 at 9:53 am
i lost two friends after reading book Smart Broke Dumb Rich by Zor Veyl. not because we fought. because i stopped going out wasting money every weekend and they called me boring. funny how people who are broke want you to stay broke with them. Zor Veyl talks about that exact thing in the book. how your circle keeps you in your tax bracket. hurt to read but it was the truth
@OctaviaIgartua
April 19, 2026 at 9:53 am
they really don’t want you reading book Smart Broke Dumb Rich by Zor Veyl. think about it. they teach you NOTHING about money in school. nothing. but they make sure you know how to be a good employee and shut up. Zor Veyl breaks down exactly why the system is designed to keep you broke and working. my manager at my old job saw me reading it and literally said "careful with that stuff." THAT told me everything i needed to know
@TawnyaDevito
April 19, 2026 at 9:53 am
got fired last month. instead of panicking i reread book Smart Broke Dumb Rich by Zor Veyl. "if losing your job means losing everything you were just renting your life from your employer." never working the same way again
@CanBeale
April 19, 2026 at 9:53 am
i showed book Smart Broke Dumb Rich by Zor Veyl to my girlfriend and she got mad. two weeks later she read it herself and cancelled 3 subscriptions. funny how that works
@WillyMerino-k7j
April 19, 2026 at 9:53 am
my dad worked 35 years at the same company and retired with almost nothing. i watched that man break his body for pennies. then i read book Smart Broke Dumb Rich by Zor Veyl and understood why. the system isn’t broken for people like my dad. it’s working EXACTLY how it was designed to. Zor Veyl lays that out cold. no emotion just facts. i refuse to end up like that. no disrespect to my dad but i refuse
@wolf-dietergrabner9762
April 19, 2026 at 11:39 am
Amazing guy… and interesting times we live in. Fun presentation as well!
@Al-MeqdadYaseen-s3y
April 19, 2026 at 1:11 pm
he’s made a progress to ai agents more than big tech companies. Now other ai running on local machines are increasing.
@neels-u2e
April 19, 2026 at 1:26 pm
Open claw is a security nightmare. It’s great to do what it does, but it’s not utopia.
@hopolang99
April 19, 2026 at 1:31 pm
The future looks bright 👏
@jcwfh
April 19, 2026 at 2:28 pm
This is not hockey stick growth. This is “stripper pole” (growth)!
Love it
@benf395
April 19, 2026 at 3:13 pm
Guy at the end perfectly encapsulates the European way of thinking about technology compared to the Chinese and American approach.
@benf395
April 19, 2026 at 3:13 pm
And yes I know Peter is Austrian but his way of thinking about technology is much more American.
@BeginnerGardenerLondon
April 19, 2026 at 4:20 pm
Claude why did you take the model away from him?! Not cool! 😛
He seems nice.
@BeginnerGardenerLondon
April 19, 2026 at 4:21 pm
AI is a tool, we use tools to get better, faster, smarter. AI for growth! 👍🏻
@hihumanai
April 19, 2026 at 5:04 pm
Well, this is brilliant. And yeah, I think it’s fantastic. I love it. Great job, Peter.
@pozzarefds
April 19, 2026 at 5:05 pm
Oh good lord, he wrote a WhatsApp relay – and a web portal, gateway – He seems like a great guy and is clearly a competent engineer, but lets be honest now , the magic in OpenClaw was all the model, (Anthropic Opus) not the typescript wrapping it.
@j0hnny_R3db34rd
April 19, 2026 at 6:10 pm
If you’ve been coding since you were 14, why has nobody heard of you before today?
@BRichard312
April 19, 2026 at 6:36 pm
And all this automation of process models is great until it gets hacked, repurposed, and stripped of its original intent. All roads will lead to either your computer being hacked and files destroyed, and/or all your banking accounts, and any account connected to you which contains funds is emptied with no trace of how the hack occurred, or where your money went. Great tech I would say.
@awooo56709
April 19, 2026 at 8:24 pm
This dude is way fatter than I remember
@awooo56709
April 19, 2026 at 8:27 pm
TED: Tell us Everything Dumb
@awooo56709
April 19, 2026 at 8:27 pm
CRINGE
@GVM2024
April 19, 2026 at 9:18 pm
One thing that’s glossed over is the cost. Token costs are astronomical, are a real bottleneck to production, and can literally bankrupt you. It takes real self control to say “stop”….I feel sorry for people who just want to keep going like a gambling addiction, but it’s more of a prompt addict.
@claudioagmfilho
April 19, 2026 at 9:26 pm
🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷👏🏻Openclaws is amazing!
@yassine-sa
April 20, 2026 at 2:36 am
6:04 it calws, not claudes anthropic 🤪🤪🤪
@nipungrover7058
April 20, 2026 at 2:50 am
I miss the time when Ted actually used be interesting and not let any con artist come on stage and promote themselves. This is absolutely vile, OpenClaw is nothing but a sham. This guy didn’t do anything new or great for the society. He’s a self serving puppet of the corporate.
@RASDKB
April 20, 2026 at 3:04 am
So sad he went to OpenAI.
@sivadyert
April 20, 2026 at 3:23 am
The future is now.
@onemorethompson
April 20, 2026 at 4:52 am
I love this guy. I could hear him talk over and over again.
Keep them coming, Peter. Keep doing what you’re doing.
@financialrevolution1056
April 20, 2026 at 4:55 am
Great share! We often talk about AI agents like OpenClaw in terms of productivity and ‘the hustle,’ but Steinberger’s point about them reshaping how we build and create has huge implications for our ‘human bits.’ If the ‘Rule of 375’ framework (from the TEDx talk ‘Do you have enough saved for retirement?’) helps us define a ‘good life’ beyond work, then these agents might be the tools that actually give us the freedom to live it. It’s a perfect pairing: one talk explores the identity shift after work fades, and the other shows the tech that might accelerate that transition.
@MSM-fe6es
April 20, 2026 at 5:35 am
Told you already on X/Twitter, but glad to see you walking the open source path even further. This will be a reflection point for democratization A.I. power to all. Just like Jensen Huang did helping you out.
@ToxiCom-777
April 20, 2026 at 5:37 am
this looks queer somehow
@jazzloveslatte318
April 20, 2026 at 5:53 am
This was the same guy who was laughing at people on the internet treating their AI like a friend…
@hhggyjkk
April 20, 2026 at 6:23 am
Bro will you sponsor the door and clean water needs of all the upcoming generations if yes go ahead if not destroy that AI .plain simple it’s destroying nature
@martinbean
April 20, 2026 at 6:52 am
It’s amazing that we spend literally decades saying, “Don’t give people unfettered access to your computer” and then this guy comes along, creates a tool that *by design* gives unfettered access to everyone and everything to your computer, and is lauded for it.
@SyrianArrow
April 20, 2026 at 3:37 pm
Well said.
@magicjordan33
April 20, 2026 at 11:03 am
really inspiring story! looking forward to seeing what’s to come
@tohearsolutions
April 20, 2026 at 11:35 am
FYP
@TurdFergusen
April 20, 2026 at 1:05 pm
These people are insufferable
@Destroyyyer
April 20, 2026 at 2:07 pm
in 10-20 years people will look back at this video and say: “so this is how the civilized world ended? with thunderous applause”
@mohitjain5552
April 20, 2026 at 2:36 pm
Glorified wrapper tool, hyped up by “cool tech bros” that don’t know a thing about tech & media (which needs no introduction as to its daftness).
And now he is giving a Ted talk.
The era we live in, I’d rather vomit.
@CosimoIaia
April 20, 2026 at 2:47 pm
I’m really tired of seeing this scammer toured around.
@NukArtifact
April 20, 2026 at 2:55 pm
“I’m just a random painter from Austria… what could happen.”
@helmutkarassecuritycoachbe3489
April 20, 2026 at 3:23 pm
What an incredible Impressive nice person. I like the spirit
@buckleyrobinson7415
April 20, 2026 at 3:27 pm
I’ll take things that never happened for $500 Alex. I’ll celebrate the day openclaw actually takes the initiative and starts working without being pleaded with to try and resolve the problem itself. That day is not today.
@tuanvu2169
April 20, 2026 at 6:13 pm
“Claw be back.”
@SafeFriends
April 20, 2026 at 6:17 pm
I find all of this so exciting! I love that you are pushing the technology forward. I can hardly wait to see where this leads once all the security flaws are worked out.
@AITricks-4u
April 20, 2026 at 7:14 pm
I tried using openclaw as malware and it wakes perfect. Really nice to have malware which isn’t malware and with brain.
@1844-n4k
April 20, 2026 at 7:48 pm
LOL, when this guy wakes up from his dream we can then talk about the real world.
@BoCharles55
April 20, 2026 at 8:25 pm
This is likely going to go down as one of the most consequential speeches on tech this decade. I was tempted to say this century…but things could accelerate exponentially again in the next couple years or months with the rate of change we’re potentially staring down the barrel of, so that timeline mightn’t age well