OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger claims he spent $10 million in tokens in just a month — but luckily OpenAI can afford it
By Christian Cawley, TechRadar
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Peter Steinberger claims to have spend $10 million in tokens in a single month at OpenAI Steinberger was chatting with Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht at the Cloudflare Connect 2026 conference OpenClaw’s creator has been working with OpenAI on next-generation personal AI agents since February 2026 OpenAI’s Peter Steinberger – the creator of the OpenClaw AI agent platform – has admitted to spending an estimated $10 million in tokens to run AI workloads in a single month, a boast which has raised concerns over the way in which OpenAI is conducting operations, especially given than the tokens are paid for by the company’s investors. The OpenClaw creator was chatting with Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht at the Cloudflare Connect 2026 conference in San Francisco when the claim was made.
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