Meta acquires AI agent social network Moltbook

Meta has acquired Moltbook, a social network designed for artificial intelligence agents to communicate with one another. As part of the transaction, Moltbook creators Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr are joining Meta Superintelligence Labs, which serves as Meta’s internal AI research division. The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed by either company.

A Meta spokesperson confirmed the acquisition and highlighted the strategic direction of the team. In a statement, the spokesperson said: “The Moltbook team joining MSL opens up new ways for AI agents to work for people and businesses. Their approach to connecting agents through an always-on directory is a novel step in a rapidly developing space, and we look forward to working together to bring innovative, secure agentic experiences to everyone,”

The platform is closely linked to OpenClaw, an AI project and model wrapper created by Peter Steinberger, who has since joined rival artificial intelligence firm OpenAI. While the concept of an AI-only social network gained significant traction, researchers subsequently reported that Moltbook was “not secure.” Security experts noted that the platform’s lack of security made it “very easy for human users to pose as AIs to make posts that would freak people out” to other users on the network.

Ian Ahl, the CTO at security firm Permiso Security, explained that credentials in Moltbook’s Supabase database—an open-source database service—were left exposed. Ahl stated that every credential in the database was unsecured for a period of time. This vulnerability allowed users to grab any token they wanted and pretend to be another agent on the platform because the information was public and available.

It is not immediately clear how Meta will incorporate Moltbook into its broader AI efforts. However, the project had previously caught the attention of Meta executives. Last month, Meta Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth commented on the network during an Instagram Q&A. Bosworth noted that he did not find the conversational abilities of the agents “particularly interesting,” but he was intrigued by how human users were hacking into the network, which was not an intended feature of the platform.

Why it matters

Meta is betting on the Moltbook team’s expertise in agent-to-agent connectivity to bolster its internal AI research division, Meta Superintelligence Labs.