Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta acquires AI agent social network Moltbook that rival Sam Altman made ‘fun of’ by saying …

Facebook parent Meta has reportedly acquired Moltbook. Moltbook is the social networking site for AI agents, a platform that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman previously joked about. While acquiring the OpenClaw AI agent last month, Altman played down Moltbook but said the underlying technology offered a glimpse of what we will experience in the coming days: “Moltbook may be (is a passing fad), but OpenClaw is not,” Altman said. In February, OpenAI hired Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw, an open-source bot previously known as Clawdbot or Moltbot, to support the project’s open-source development.

According to a report by Axios, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has now announced that it is acquiring Moltbook and the company will hire the founders of the AI agent social media platform into its AI research division.