Meta has acquired Moltbook, a social networking platform designed for artificial intelligence agents, and will bring its founders into the company’s AI research division.
The deal brings Moltbook co-founders Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr into Meta Superintelligence Labs, the unit led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang. The pair is expected to start on March 16. Meta did not disclose financial terms.
Moltbook launched in late January as an experimental platform where AI-powered bots can interact, share content, and coordinate tasks. According to an internal post seen by Axios, Meta’s Vishal Shah described the platform as establishing “a registry where agents are verified and tethered to human owners.” Meta says existing Moltbook customers can continue using the platform, though the company signaled this arrangement is temporary.
Moltbook was designed to work alongside a separate project called OpenClaw, previously known as Clawdbot. OpenAI hired OpenClaw’s creator, Peter Steinberger, and is backing the project’s open-sourcing.
The acquisition reflects a broader competition among technology companies to recruit AI talent. Anthropic chief product officer Mike Krieger noted that most people are not yet ready to give AI full autonomy over their computers.
The platform drew attention for security reasons as well. Cybersecurity firm Wiz identified a flaw that exposed private messages, over 6,000 email addresses, and more than one million credentials. Wiz said the issue was fixed after it contacted Moltbook.
