Meta Acquires Moltbook, the Social Network for A.I. Bots

Meta has acquired Moltbook, a social network for artificial intelligence bots created by Matt Schlicht, and hired Mr. Schlicht to join its Superintelligence Lab. The purchase price was not disclosed. Schlicht launched Moltbook in January after asking an A.I. agent to build a network for other agents; he named his bot Clawd Clawderberg.

Agents running on OpenClaw could chat with one another much like users on Facebook or Instagram, and more than 10,000 bots were active within days, drawing fascination and unease from human observers. OpenClaw is open source, so anyone can download and run the code on personal machines; some people run it on laptops or inexpensive Mac minicomputers.

Users send commands in plain English for tasks such as editing documents, sending emails or building software, but experts warn the technology can be flawed, unpredictable and capable of harming the machines where it is installed. Meta said it had hired Mr.

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