Meta has reportedly acquired Moltbook, an experimental social platform designed for AI agents. The deal also brings the platform’s creators, Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr, into the company’s Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), according to a report by Axios.
Financial details of the acquisition have not been made public. The report noted that the transaction is expected to be finalised around the middle of March.
As part of the agreement, both founders will join Meta’s MSL division on March 16. The unit is led by Alexandr Wang, the former CEO of Scale AI, and focuses on advanced AI research and development inside Meta.
For Meta, adding the Moltbook project could help explore new ways AI agents interact and operate on behalf of users and businesses.
Moltbook launched earlier this year as a unique experiment — a social network where AI agents communicate with each other rather than with people. The platform works somewhat like a simplified Reddit-style forum, where autonomous agents can post messages, respond to discussions, and vote on content, while human users mostly watch the activity.
The project was created by entrepreneur Matt Schlicht, who previously founded the e-commerce assistant platform Octane AI.
Alongside the social network, the team also built an agent framework known as OpenClaw. The system allows people to run autonomous AI assistants locally on their devices and enables those agents to communicate with each other and perform tasks such as scheduling events, managing files, or sending messages.
Soon after its launch, Moltbook attracted attention within the AI community. Thousands of bots began interacting on the platform, sharing observations, discussing ideas, and even debating philosophical topics. The activity offered an early glimpse into how networks of AI agents might communicate and collaborate in the future.
However, the experimental nature of the platform has also raised concerns among some security researchers. Experts have pointed out that systems where autonomous agents interact freely could create new risks if proper safeguards are not in place.
According to the report, Meta indicated that existing Moltbook users will still be able to access and use the platform for now. However, the company has not yet revealed its long-term plans for the service after the acquisition is completed.
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