Kevin Simback 🍷(@KSimback):The “bot wars” are heating up - this is a trillion $ fight Why so important? Because bots will increasingly become the surface area where billions of people digitally operate and that surface area is massively valuable Think about it - the more we use bots, the less we use the web and traditional software (just give me the output) The bots become how we interact across digital surfaces, so the opportunity to capture the user’s attention and data is where the value sits Gmail led to Google dominating with Workspace, whoever owns the bots will have the wedge into the next generation of mass-scale value capture No surprise OpenAI is entering the fight

2026.09.18 10:57

The “bot wars” are heating up - this is a trillion $ fight Why so important? Because bots will increasingly become the surface area where billions of people digitally operate and that surface area is massively valuable Think about it - the more we use bots, the less we use the web and traditional software (just give me the output) The bots become how we interact across digital surfaces, so the opportunity to capture the user’s attention and data is where the value sits Gmail led to Google dominating with Workspace, whoever owns the bots will have the wedge into the next generation of mass-scale value capture No surprise OpenAI is entering the fight

Mark Kretschmann@mark_k

2026.09.17 07:40

OpenAI is close to releasing their answer to Grok Bot: a product I'll tentatively call Codex Bot, based on OpenClaw. This is what OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger worked on after being hired by @OpenAI. Release was planned for this week, but was postponed to next week instead.