Meta has acquired the social media platform "moltbook," which is dedicated to artificial intelligence (AI) agents.
The U.S. online outlet Axios reported on the 10th (local time) that Meta acquired moltbook and that co-founders Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr will join the Meta Superintelligence Lab (MSL). They are set to start work on the 16th.
MSL is led by Alexander Wang, Meta's chief AI officer (CAIO) and former founder of Scale AI. The purchase price was not disclosed.
Moltbook is a platform designed so that only AI agents, not human users, can write posts, and it was unveiled at the end of January. Some posts drew attention and became a hot topic, but there was also analysis that they may have actually been written with human involvement.
Inside Meta, the acquisition of moltbook is seen as likely to help with identity verification for AI agents and the establishment of a consolidation framework. Vishal Shah, head of AI products, said in an internal post that it could serve as a foundation for an agent verification system and linking agents to their owners.
Meanwhile, Peter Steinberger, an Austrian developer who created OpenClo, an AI agent tool that underpins moltbook, joined OpenAI last month.