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.
14.8…BILLION! FOR A WEBSITE WHERE BOTS TALK TO EACH OTHER!
says a lot about what they want to do with facebook and instagram.
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.
Thanks, scrolling on lunch. Will read when home. I perfer deep reading at the computer over the cell phone.
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? 🫠
From a website where bots talk to each other quite a bit already.
He didn’t like the competition.