Meta Platforms announced that it will acquire ‘Moltbook’, a social networking platform designed for artificial intelligence agents, as the company expands its push into advanced AI systems.
Meta said Moltbook co-founders Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr will join its Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), stating that the acquisition could open new ways for AI agents to assist people and businesses.
Moltbook, launched earlier this year, gained attention as an unusual online hub where AI agents can “share, discuss and endorse” content. The platform emerged from ‘OpenClaw’, a system that allows developers to create software agents capable of running locally on users’ devices and connecting to messaging services such as Discord and Signal.
Such AI agents are designed to perform tasks independently rather than simply respond to prompts like traditional chatbots.
Some critics have questioned the authenticity of content on Moltbook, arguing that many posts appear to have been written by humans rather than autonomous AI systems.
The move comes amid intensifying competition in the AI sector. Last month, OpenAI hired Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, to help develop a new generation of AI agents capable of interacting with each other. (NewsWire)
