26 October 2026

OpenClaw creator says he spent $10 million on AI tokens last month

First reported

Computerworld and InfoWorld ran this on , 3 days before the next source picked it up.

  • Peter Steinberger, creator of the OpenClaw AI assistant and now working at OpenAI, said he spent $10 million on AI tokens last month.
  • Tokens are the units AI models charge by, so this is a very large usage bill for one person.
  • He made the remark in conversation with Cloudflare's CEO Dane Knecht at a conference in San Francisco.

Reported by TechRadar, Computerworld, InfoWorld