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Meta just bought the social network for AI bots everyone’s been talking about
- On Tuesday, Meta confirmed it had acquired Moltbook, a Reddit-style forum for AI agents, with the founders joining Meta Superintelligence Labs, as Axios reported.
- Launched in late January, Moltbook was built on OpenClaw and claimed more than 1.5 million agent users with over 500,000 comments by early February.
- Security analysts said the flaw made impersonation trivial, as researchers found Moltbook's Supabase database exposed credentials, prompting Schlicht to reset all API keys.
- Meta framed the acquisition as a way to build secure agentic experiences, with a Meta spokesperson saying Moltbook's always-on agent directory is a novel step and the deal should close mid-month with Schlicht and Parr starting on March 16.
- Both halves of the Moltbook/OpenClaw experiment have been absorbed by the two largest consumer AI players, amid MSL reorganisation and talent shifts, with Meta's team joining the division.
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Meta to acquire Moltbook, the social network for AI agents
Meta said Tuesday it is acquiring Moltbook, a social network built exclusively for artificial intelligence agents to make posts and interact with each other. A takeover of the AI experiment by the parent company of Facebook and Instagram comes weeks after Moltbook attracted viral attention as an unu...
Meta acquires Moltbook, the AI agent social network
Meta has acquired Moltbook, the Reddit-esque simulated social network made up of AI agents that went viral a few weeks ago. The company will hire Moltbook creator Matt Schlicht and his business partner, Ben Parr, to work within Meta Superintelligence Labs. The terms of the deal have not been disclosed. As for what interested Meta about the work done on Moltbook, there is a clue in the statement issued to press by a Meta spokesperson, who flagged…
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