By Guardian staff reporter
Publication Date: 2026-03-10 17:27:00
Facebook parent company Meta Platforms announced Tuesday that it has acquired Moltbook, a social networking platform for artificial intelligence agents, bringing the company’s founders into its AI research division.
The deal brings Moltbook co-founders Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr into Meta Superintelligence Labs, the unit led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang that bought Meta for $14.8 billion. Meta did not provide any information about the financial terms of the deal. Schlicht and Parr are scheduled to start at Meta Superintelligence Labs on March 16.
Moltbook, a Reddit-like website where AI-powered bots appear to exchange code and rumors about their human owners, launched in late January as a niche experiment. Since then, it has become the focus of a growing debate about how close computers are to human-like intelligence.
The development signals an intense race between tech giants for AI talent and technology, as autonomous agents capable of performing real-world tasks move from one novelty to the next…
