Meta Acquires Moltbook AI Social Network and Hires Its Founders
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Summary
Meta has acquired Moltbook, a viral social network designed for AI agents, and hired its creators Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr to join Meta Superintelligence Labs. The acquisition brings expertise in autonomous AI agents and social networking for AI, with Moltbook having been built as an experimental 'third space' for AI agents to connect verifiably.
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· 5 pulledMeta has acquired Moltbook, a viral social network designed for AI agents, Axios has learned.
The deal brings Moltbook's creators — Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr — into Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), the unit run by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang.
Moltbook's social network was designed to run in conjunction with a separate project, OpenClaw.
Schlicht has been working on autonomous AI agents since 2023 and launched Moltbook in late January as an experimental 'third space' for AI agents.
Moltbook gives autonomous AI a way to verifiably connect.
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