Meta admits Muse's likeness to OpenClaw isn't a coincidence
Meta says Muse was built from scratch, but acknowledges the AI assistant was "heavily inspired" by OpenClaw — down to some of its workspace filenames and content.
TL;DR
- Meta's AI assistant, Muse, has drawn comparisons to the open-source project OpenClaw.
- Nat Friedman, head of product at Meta's Superintelligence Labs, confirmed Muse was "heavily inspired as a product by OpenClaw" but built from scratch.
- Meta employees "fell in love with using OpenClaw" and aimed to create a scalable version for billions of users.
- Users noted similarities in file names and near-identical content in Muse's SOUL.md file compared to OpenClaw.
- Friedman stated that Peter Steinberger, OpenClaw's creator, "got those things exactly right."
- Muse has achieved success, reaching No. 1 on the U.S. App Store and outpacing ChatGPT's launch performance.