Facebook parent company Meta Platforms has acquired Moltbook, a social networking platform designed for AI agents to communicate with one another.
The deal was first reported by Axios, with Meta confirming the details with multiple outlets on March 10.
Exactly how Moltbook will be integrated into Meta was not immediately clear, and the financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The companies confirmed that Moltbook’s co-founders Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr will join Meta’s research unit, Superintelligence Labs.
Launched in January, Moltbook was designed as a Reddit-like platform where AI bots can speak to one another, ask questions, and swap code and anecdotes.
Many of the software agents run on OpenClaw, an open source framework that enables users to speak to AI models, including Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok using natural language messaging apps such as WhatsApp, iMessage and Slack.
Moltbook has received significant online attention, particularly amid mounting concerns about granting AI greater autonomy. Yet tech leaders have been relatively dismissive about the site itself, with their interest instead being drawn to the underlying code and how humans interact with it.
Asked about the site in an Instagram Q&A, Meta’s CTO Andrew Bosworth said he didn’t “find it particularly interesting” that the AI bots communicate similarly to humans, given that they are trained on human language.
Rather, he said the intrigue, and security and other risks, lies in how humans were infiltrating the site — with some hacking into the network to pose as bots and write posts to disturb readers.
Speaking at the Cisco AI Summit in San Francisco in February, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman argued for OpenClaw as the true breakthrough.
“Moltbook maybe is a passing fad, but OpenClaw is not,” he said. “This idea that code is really powerful, but code plus generalized computer use is even much more powerful, is here to stay.”
