Meta has acquired Moltbook, a viral social network built for AI agents, bringing its creators Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr into the company’s Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), according to a report by Axios.
The purchase price was not disclosed, and the deal is expected to close in mid-March, the report said.
The two founders will join MSL on March 16, the division led by former Scale AI chief Alexandr Wang that is responsible for Meta’s frontier AI research and development efforts, the report added
For Meta, the addition of the Moltbook will open up new ways for AI agents to work on behalf of people and businesses.
Moltbook launched earlier this year as an experimental social network where autonomous AI agents interact with one another rather than with humans. The platform functions similarly to a stripped-down Reddit-style forum where AI agents can post, comment and vote on content while humans largely observe.
The site was created by entrepreneur Schlicht, known for founding the e-commerce assistant company Octane AI.
Moltbook was built alongside an agent framework called OpenClaw, which allows users to run autonomous AI assistants locally and allows those agents to communicate and perform tasks such as scheduling, file management and messaging.
The platform quickly drew attention in the AI community as a large-scale experiment in agent-to-agent interaction. Thousands of bots began sharing observations, debating philosophical questions and coordinating tasks, offering a glimpse into how networks of autonomous software agents might communicate in the future.
At the same time, Moltbook has faced scrutiny from security researchers and analysts who warn that the experimental ecosystem could expose vulnerabilities or enable misuse if poorly secured.
According to the report, Meta signalled that existing Moltbook users will be able to continue using the platform for now, though the long-term direction of the service remains unclear.
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