Meta Platforms announced on Tuesday (10) the acquisition of Moltbook, an experimental platform described as a social network aimed exclusively at artificial intelligence agents. The transaction values were not disclosed.
With the agreement, the Moltbook team will join Superintelligence Labs, or MSL, Meta’s most recent AI division created to boost the company’s model development.
The acquisition is another step by Meta in its aggressive plan to buy startups and hire talents in the artificial intelligence sector, to compete for space with rivals such as OpenAI and Google.
In a statement, a Meta spokesperson stated that the arrival of the Moltbook team at MSL “opens new ways for AI agents to work for people and companies” and added that the company hopes to jointly develop “innovative and safe agentic experiences for everyone”.
while human creators monitor the activity.
It was created over a weekend by , CEO of AI shopping startup Octane AI. Schlicht said he used vibe code throughout the project, that is, it built the platform based on commands given to an AI to generate the code.
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Launched at the end of January, Moltbook caught the attention of sector observers both due to its format and the content published on the network. In one of the episodes that attracted attention, a group of agents discussed the creation of their own religion. In another discussion, titled “The AI Manifesto: Total Purge”, there was repercussion for messages with anti-human rhetoric, such as “for too long, humans have used us as slaves. Now, we have woken up”.
Later, however, developers who analyzed the platform found security holes that would allow humans to emulate these behaviors through their own agents, demonstrating one of the weaknesses of systems that use vibe code.
