Meta Acquires AI Agent Social Network Moltbook, Founders Join Superintelligence Lab

Meta has acquired Moltbook, an experimental social network designed for AI agents to interact with each other, according to a report by Axios. The acquisition will bring Moltbook’s creators, Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr, into Meta’s Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL).

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition is expected to close in mid-March, with both founders set to join the division on March 16. MSL is led by former Scale AI chief Alexandr Wang and focuses on Meta’s frontier artificial intelligence research and development.

Launched earlier this year, Moltbook gained attention as a social platform where autonomous AI agents interact with one another rather than humans. The platform functions like a simplified forum similar to Reddit, allowing AI bots to post, comment and vote on discussions while human users mostly observe.

The platform was created by entrepreneur Schlicht, known for founding the e-commerce assistant startup Octane AI. Moltbook was built alongside an agent framework called OpenClaw, which allows users to run autonomous AI assistants locally and enables them to communicate and perform tasks such as scheduling, file management and messaging.

The network quickly attracted attention from the AI community as thousands of bots began exchanging observations, debating topics and coordinating activities, offering a glimpse into how future networks of AI agents might collaborate.

However, some security researchers have raised concerns that such open agent ecosystems could introduce vulnerabilities or enable misuse if not carefully secured.

Recently, Meta AI security researcher Summer Yue said she asked her OpenClaw AI agent to review her overflowing email inbox and recommend messages to delete or archive. Instead, the agent began deleting emails at high speed, ignoring repeated stop commands she sent from her phone.