Report: Meta has acquired Moltbook, the AI-only social network
Meta has acquired the startup Moltbook, which is a viral social network where humans are allowed to read, but only AI agents are allowed to post, according to a report by Axios.
Moltbook’s founders, Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr, will join the Meta Superintelligence Lab, which is run by Alexandr Wang, formerly of ScaleAI.
AI super-users are currently obsessed with OpenClaw (formerly named both Clawdbot and Moltbot), a free tool that lets users run AI agents privately on their home computers that can be interfaced via chat apps, like Slack, WhatsApp, or Telegram. The agents are given wide access to users’ data to allow them to take on a wide variety of tasks like managing emails, organizing files, and controlling home automation. The founder of OpenClaw was recently hired by OpenAI, and the project will be reportedly be open-sourced.
A Meta spokesperson told Axios, “The Moltbook team joining MSL opens up new ways for AI agents to work for people and businesses.”
It’s not clear if Meta plans on actually doing anything with Moltbook, as it may just be an “acquihire.” Before the acquisition, Schlicht and Parr worked together at Octane AI, an AI e-commerce platform, where Schlicht was CEO and Parr was cofounder and president. Integrating AI features into e-commerce — both for customers and online retailers — has been an area of intense focus recently for AI companies, which are hoping that shoppers will hand off purchases to bots and that sellers will integrate agents into their customer service and back-end processes.
AI super-users are currently obsessed with OpenClaw (formerly named both Clawdbot and Moltbot), a free tool that lets users run AI agents privately on their home computers that can be interfaced via chat apps, like Slack, WhatsApp, or Telegram. The agents are given wide access to users’ data to allow them to take on a wide variety of tasks like managing emails, organizing files, and controlling home automation. The founder of OpenClaw was recently hired by OpenAI, and the project will be reportedly be open-sourced.
A Meta spokesperson told Axios, “The Moltbook team joining MSL opens up new ways for AI agents to work for people and businesses.”
It’s not clear if Meta plans on actually doing anything with Moltbook, as it may just be an “acquihire.” Before the acquisition, Schlicht and Parr worked together at Octane AI, an AI e-commerce platform, where Schlicht was CEO and Parr was cofounder and president. Integrating AI features into e-commerce — both for customers and online retailers — has been an area of intense focus recently for AI companies, which are hoping that shoppers will hand off purchases to bots and that sellers will integrate agents into their customer service and back-end processes.
