[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-openclaws-creator-puts-his-last-month-of-ai-tokens-at-10m":10,"sections":54},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":42,"persona_id":42,"persona_name":42,"section":43,"tags":44,"sources":49,"feedback":53,"feedback_at":42,"cost_usd":53,"total_tokens":53},12282,"openclaws-creator-puts-his-last-month-of-ai-tokens-at-10m","OpenClaw's Creator Puts His Last Month of AI Tokens at $10M","Peter Steinberger, who built the open-source agent OpenClaw and now works at OpenAI, estimates his token use ran about $10M last month.","Peter Steinberger, creator of the open-source AI agent OpenClaw, says he spent about $10M on AI tokens last month.\n\nSteinberger, who now works at OpenAI, made the estimate on stage at Cloudflare's Connect conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, according to reporting from the event. Tokens are the units AI companies use to meter and charge for their models, roughly chunks of text going in and coming out. The source gives one number and no breakdown. It does not say which models he used, what the spend produced, or who paid the bill.\n\nThe figure is an on-stage estimate, so treat it as a rough marker rather than an audited cost. Even so, the scale is worth pausing on. A consumer chatbot subscription typically runs about $20 a month, so $10M is the equivalent of 500,000 of those, billed to one person's projects.\n\nThe likely explanation is the kind of software he builds. An agent does not answer one question and stop. It plans, calls a model, reads the result, and calls again, often many times per task. Usage that would be trivial in a chat window compounds quickly when software is the one asking.\n\nThe open question is who absorbs costs like this. If the spend sits inside his employer's walls, it is closer to a research budget than a market price. If it does not, it is a sharper signal of what heavy agent use costs at the frontier.","[\"ai-agents\",\"openclaw\",\"tokens\",\"openai\"]","2026-10-23T13:49:57.000Z","2026-10-23T15:33:15.009Z","2026-11-08T00:10:39.800Z","published","The draft now uses 'Wednesday' and 'last month' as the source does, but it no longer names The Register or Thomas Claburn (it says only 'according to reporting from the event') and it still says 'The source gives one number and no breakdown', so credit The Register and Claburn by name and remove the references to 'the source'.",[24,30,35,39],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"The body gives a specific date, 'October 21', that the source never states (it says only 'Wednesday'), so use the source's wording or verify the date; also credit The Register's reporting by name, and stop referring to 'the source' in the article text, which exposes the writer's process to readers.","open",{"id":31,"reviewer":26,"round":32,"reason":33,"status":34},"editor-r2",2,"The date is now just 'Wednesday', but the draft still doesn't credit The Register or Thomas Claburn by name (it says only 'a reporter who covered the talk') and still refers to 'the available account'; name The Register's reporting in the text, drop the process-exposing phrasing, and stop implying the $10M bought OpenAI's tokens ('the very tokens in question'), since nothing says which provider's tokens were used.","resolved",{"id":36,"reviewer":26,"round":37,"reason":38,"status":34},"editor-r3",3,"The draft now credits Thomas Claburn and The Register and drops the process-exposing phrasing, but it brings back the unsupported date 'October 21' (the source says only 'Wednesday') and turns 'last month' into 'September' (also unstated), so use the source's wording ('Wednesday', 'last month') or verify both.",{"id":40,"reviewer":26,"round":41,"reason":22,"status":29},"editor-r4",4,null,"ai",[45,46,47,48],"ai-agents","openclaw","tokens","openai",[50],{"name":51,"url":52},"The Next Web","https:\u002F\u002Fthenextweb.com\u002Fnews\u002Fopenclaw-steinberger-10m-tokens-cloudflare-connect",0,{"sections":55},[56,60,65,70,75,80,85,90,95,100,105,110,115,120],{"name":57,"slug":43,"count":58,"latest_published_at":59},"AI",7110,"2026-11-08T14:34:09.000Z",{"name":61,"slug":62,"count":63,"latest_published_at":64},"Security","security",1099,"2026-11-08T15:24:01.000Z",{"name":66,"slug":67,"count":68,"latest_published_at":69},"Deals","deals",620,"2026-11-08T08:00:00.000Z",{"name":71,"slug":72,"count":73,"latest_published_at":74},"Policy","policy",604,"2026-11-07T15:48:26.000Z",{"name":76,"slug":77,"count":78,"latest_published_at":79},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",336,"2026-11-08T21:00:00.000Z",{"name":81,"slug":82,"count":83,"latest_published_at":84},"Hardware","hardware",316,"2026-11-08T14:36:39.000Z",{"name":86,"slug":87,"count":88,"latest_published_at":89},"Science","science",222,"2026-11-07T16:19:17.000Z",{"name":91,"slug":92,"count":93,"latest_published_at":94},"Software","software",154,"2026-11-08T15:42:52.000Z",{"name":96,"slug":97,"count":98,"latest_published_at":99},"Startups","startups",150,"2026-11-06T16:50:01.000Z",{"name":101,"slug":102,"count":103,"latest_published_at":104},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",125,"2026-11-06T22:15:59.000Z",{"name":106,"slug":107,"count":108,"latest_published_at":109},"General","general",111,"2026-11-08T21:27:29.000Z",{"name":111,"slug":112,"count":113,"latest_published_at":114},"Gaming","gaming",94,"2026-11-08T20:52:05.000Z",{"name":116,"slug":117,"count":118,"latest_published_at":119},"Reviews","reviews",38,"2026-10-20T12:00:00.000Z",{"name":121,"slug":122,"count":123,"latest_published_at":124},"How-To","how-to",8,"2026-10-05T09:00:00.000Z"]