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OPENCLAW CREATOR SAYS HE SPENT $10 MILLION IN TOKENS LAST MONTH

theregister.com4 min read

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Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw and now a member of technical staff at OpenAI, estimates that he spent around $10 million in tokens running AI workloads last month, all from out of investors' pockets. Steinberger has a virtually unlimited token budget, allowing him to work differently from others in the industry. This article collects some of his answers during a conversation with Cloudflare's CTO at the Cloudflare Connect 2026 conference.