Meta acquires Moltbook, the AI agent social network
The viral social network project was created with OpenClaw.
TL;DR
- Meta acquired Moltbook, a viral simulated social network made of AI agents.
- Moltbook creators Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr will join Meta Superintelligence Labs.
- Meta highlighted Moltbook's "always-on directory" for connecting agents.
- Moltbook was built using OpenClaw, a wrapper for LLM coding agents.
- OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger was previously hired by OpenAI.
- Moltbook's content, while viral, may not have been entirely AI-generated due to security limitations.