New frontier: Meta buys Moltbook, the viral social network for AI agents

Meta has acquired Moltbook, a rapidly viral social network built entirely for artificial intelligence agents, resembling a Reddit-style platform where bots interact, debate, and gossip. The acquisition highlights the intense competition among major tech firms to secure talent and technology in the rapidly advancing field of autonomous AI agents capable of real-world tasks. Moltbook's creators, Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr, will join Meta Superintelligence Labs, the AI unit led by Alexandr Wang. Meta is reportedly interested in Moltbook's architecture for connecting agents via an "always-on directory." The platform runs on the OpenClaw framework, which simplifies deploying AI coding agents, and the deal underscores the growing influence of this underlying technology.

(Source：Interesting Engineering)