This is NOT OpenAI buying OpenClaw, it's OpenAI hiring someone who can build it, similar to them betting on Jony Ive.

This is basically what's happening: https://youtu.be/N-Esh4W3dfI

OpenAI did not "bet" on Jony Ive. They bought his company io Products.

Is that not a bet?

It's certainly not a good way of explaining that this is a hire and not an acquisition!