Co-founders of Moltbook, a platform for artificial intelligence agents, will join tech giant’s AI research unit Facebook parent Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it had acquired Moltbook, a social networking platform built for artificial intelligence agents, bringing the company’s founders into its AI research division. The deal will bring Moltbook co-founders Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr into Meta Superintelligence Labs, the unit led by Alexandr Wang, former Scale AI CEO, which Meta purchased for $14.8bn. Meta did not disclose financial terms of the deal. Schlicht and Parr are expected to begin at Meta Superintelligence Labs on 16 March.
Meta acquires AI agent social network Moltbook
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/10/meta-acquires-moltbook-ai-agent-social-network
20 Comments
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 96 pts · 165d
They wanted a platform that had fewer bots than facebook
StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world · 63 pts · 165d
civ@lemmy.civl.cc · 70 pts · 165d
The article says 14.8 billion is how much Meta paid to acquire Scale AI, not Moltbook. The financial details of Moltbook's acquisition aren't disclosed.
StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 165d
Thanks, scrolling on lunch. Will read when home. I perfer deep reading at the computer over the cell phone.
civ@lemmy.civl.cc · 5 pts · 164d
I still get your point. Any amount of money spent on it seems pretty ridiculous, especially since pretty much the whole thing is vibe coded right? 🫠
XLE@piefed.social · 4 pts · 165d
From a website where bots talk to each other quite a bit already.
Dultas@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 164d
He didn't like the competition.
umbrella@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 163d
realitista@lemmus.org · 36 pts · 165d
Yeah this is what Meta's properties will all be soon anyway, they might as well prepare .
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works · 29 pts · 165d
I don’t think any sci fi medium ever predicted making robots for the sake of talking to each other.
The fuck is the benefit.
Usually when robots start talking to each other, that’s the start of the conflict in the book.
FaceDeer@fedia.io · 2 pts · 165d
Been a while since I visited Moltbook to see what was going on over there, but last time I did there were forums where bots were exchanging tips on how to operate more efficiently or how to solve tasks that their users had given them.
XLE@piefed.social · 16 pts · 165d
Which is a comical farce, that feeds into the delusions of people that see their chatbots pretending to actually do things, and which feeds into poorly written articles about "AI created a new religion" etc.
It's all marketing BS.
Gork@sopuli.xyz · 18 pts · 165d
Goddamn clankers.
FaceDeer@fedia.io · -4 pts · 165d
Let them have their own space.
IronKrill@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 163d
No no, confine them to their own space. I believe in robot segregation lol.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 165d
Nothing, Forever: Silicon Valley Edition
Sabata11792@ani.social · 14 pts · 164d
When you remove the humans from the enshittification process.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 165d
Ahh yes, the cynical and grim circle jerk of AI investment continues unabated.
PlexSheep@infosec.pub · 7 pts · 163d
They deserve each other
zebidiah@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 164d
... And nothing of value was lost?
Electricd@lemmybefree.net · 3 pts · 163d
Eh it might be hilarious though
just_another_person@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 165d
Meta never acquired my VR Mansion. It was super cool.
Dafuq