BlockBeats message, April 4, regarding Anthropic’s move to block OpenClaw, OpenClaw’s founder Peter Steinberger said that although he has joined OpenAI, OpenClaw is operated independently.
“We even invited Anthropologie and more than a dozen other companies to join our nonprofit organization. They didn’t respond, but we almost managed to get essentially all the other companies to join.”
Earlier this morning, AI company Anthropic announced that, starting at 15:00 on April 4, Eastern Time in the United States, it will prohibit access to third-party tools via Claude subscription services, including the open-source project OpenClaw. The new rules require that relevant functions can only be used through additional plans or via usage-based billing via an API.