PANews reported on April 4th that after Anthropic announced its ban on OpenClaw, its founder, Peter Steinberger, issued an urgent clarification: OpenClaw is an independently operated project and has nothing to do with his personal joining OpenAI. He revealed that OpenClaw had proactively invited Anthropic and more than ten other companies to join its non-profit organization, but Anthropic did not respond, while most of the other companies did.

As previously reported, Anthropic cut off Claude subscription support for OpenClaw due to resource optimization after Peter joined OpenAI in February.