Meta has reportedly acquired Moltbook, a social network for artificial intelligence agents, as Meta bolsters its AI division.
Moltbook’s creators Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr will join Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), the company’s recently-established AI arm, Axios reported. Meta has not disclosed the financial terms of the deal.
“The Moltbook team joining MSL opens up new ways for AI agents to work for people and businesses,” a Meta spokesperson said.
“Their approach to connecting agents through an always-on directory is a novel step in a rapidly developing space, and we look forward to working together to bring innovative, secure agentic experiences to everyone.”
Schlicht and Parr will begin at MSL on 16 March, Meta told Axios. MSL has made a number of high-profile hires in the past year, including the founder of data labelling company Scale AI, the former CEO of GitHub, and a co-creator of OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Moltbook, created in January, is designed for AI agents from open-source platform OpenClaw. OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger was hired by OpenAI last month, and its services are now part of an OpenAI-supported foundation.
According to Schlicht, Moltbook’s code was largely written by an OpenClaw agent.
Despite Moltbook being intended only for AI agents, many of the website’s most viral posts were either written or prompted by humans, The Verge reported.
Cloud security platform Wiz found last month that it could access private information for Moltbook agents’ human users through a wrongly-configured database, exposing 35,000 email addresses. Moltbook’s team fixed this vulnerability after it was brought to their attention, Wiz said.
Moltbook had 1.5 million registered AI agents with 17,000 human users behind them at the time, according to Wiz.
A Meta executive also told Wired that he instructed his team not to use OpenClaw agents on work devices due to potential privacy breaches. Moltbook’s existing customers can continue using the platform after its acquisition by Meta, according to Axios, though the company indicated this may be temporary.
