Meta to acquire Moltbook, the social network for AI agents

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Meta is acquiring Moltbook, a societal web wherever AI agents station and chat with each other

LOS ANGELES -- Meta said Wednesday it is acquiring Moltbook, a societal web built exclusively for artificial quality agents to marque posts and interact with each other.

A takeover of the AI experimentation by the genitor institution of Facebook and Instagram comes weeks aft Moltbook attracted viral attraction arsenic an antithetic Reddit-like hub for AI systems trading gossip.

Meta's determination reflects the tech industry's ongoing fascination with the committedness of AI agents that spell beyond a chatbot's capabilities successful being capable to enactment and execute tasks connected a person's behalf.

Meta said successful a connection that Moltbook introduced caller ideas successful a “rapidly processing space” and volition unfastened “new ways for AI agents to enactment for radical and businesses.” Meta said it was hiring Moltbook co-founders Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr. The deal's fiscal presumption weren't disclosed.

In a akin move, OpenAI, shaper of ChatGPT, past period hired the creator of AI cause OpenClaw, formerly called Moltbot and the exertion upon which Moltbook was built.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said astatine the clip that Peter Steinberger would articulation OpenAI “to thrust the adjacent procreation of idiosyncratic agents” that volition interact with each different “to bash precise utile things for people.”

OpenClaw operates connected users’ ain hardware and runs locally connected their device, meaning it tin entree and negociate files and information directly, and link with messaging apps similar Discord and Signal. Users who make OpenClaw agents past nonstop them to articulation Moltbook.

OpenAI besides earlier this week said it was acquiring Promptfoo, an AI information level that tests the behaviors and risks of agents.

Questions astir the authenticity of contented posted connected Moltbook swirled successful its archetypal week of operation, erstwhile it was astatine its highest virality. Researchers astatine Wiz, a unreality information platform, published a study soon aft the level launched detailing information vulnerabilities connected the site, which person since been patched.