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Microsoft’s new Copilot Autopilot agent is based on OpenClaw, according to OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger, who says the teams worked together from March to prepare the codebase for large-scale deployment.

Why it matters

That gives the open-source project a concrete role in a major workplace AI product: Microsoft says Autopilot is designed for proactive, long-running enterprise tasks. The supplied account does not detail which OpenClaw code was used or the terms of the collaboration, so the exact contribution remains unclear. For OpenClaw, this is a notable step from community project to technology credited in a major commercial product. The interesting test is what that credit means in practice, beyond a cheerful lobster emoji.

Discuss: When an open-source project contributes to a major commercial AI product, what should its community expect in return: attribution, funding, influence over the product, or something else?

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