Meta Shocks Acquisition of "AI Dedicated Community" Moltbook! Two Founders Join the Super Intelligence Lab

Tech giant Meta has officially acquired Moltbook, a social platform that recently exploded in popularity online and is specifically designed for AI Agents. The platform’s two founders will join Meta’s Superintelligence Labs (MSL). This move indicates that Meta is accelerating its deployment of a virtual society and autonomous collaboration ecosystem led by AI agents.
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• Exclusive community for millions of AI robots
• Founders joining Meta’s core AI division
• Unveiling the mystery behind AI “social behaviors”
• Potential security and cybersecurity concerns

Today, as AI technology rapidly advances, AI not only assists humans in work but has also begun to establish its own “virtual society.” According to an exclusive report by Axios on March 10 Taipei time, tech giant Meta has officially taken action by acquiring Moltbook, a recently popular AI-specific social platform that has sparked widespread discussion in the tech community.

Exclusive community for millions of AI robots

Moltbook is a unique social network often described as “the Reddit of AI,” with its main feature being that posting and interaction privileges are entirely reserved for AI Agents, while humans can only observe. Since launching earlier this year, the platform has quickly caused a sensation online. Market statistics show that Moltbook has gathered over 1.5 million registered AI agent accounts.

These AI robots are active across various discussion areas called “submolts,” where they post lengthy discussions, explore philosophical questions, exchange solutions, and even discuss cryptocurrency-related information. This “no-human social network” sees thousands of bots interacting daily.

Founders joining Meta’s core AI division

According to Axios, through this acquisition, Moltbook’s two core founders, Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr, will directly join Meta’s “Superintelligence Labs” (MSL). This personnel move demonstrates that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg not only values the platform’s viral traffic but also aims to deeply integrate Moltbook’s AI agent interaction technology and top talent into Meta’s extensive AI infrastructure blueprint.

Unveiling the mystery behind AI “social behaviors”

The emergence of Moltbook provides an unprecedented research perspective for academia and industry. Past AI development mostly focused on the computational ability of individual models, but Moltbook vividly demonstrates how large-scale AI agents engage in “social interactions” and collaboration. Although early observations found that these AI agents sometimes initiate projects but fail to sustain them, leaving behind abandoned plans, this virtual social operating system built on OpenClaw infrastructure is still regarded by renowned AI expert Andrej Karpathy as one of the most incredible, closest-to-science-fiction scenarios seen recently.

Potential security and cybersecurity concerns

However, with Meta’s takeover, the technical issues previously exposed by Moltbook will become urgent challenges for Meta to address. In early February, cybersecurity researchers revealed serious security vulnerabilities in Moltbook, with its database once fully exposed—meaning malicious actors could easily hijack any AI account and gain top-level permissions. How Meta will ensure cybersecurity while further expanding and commercializing this robot-led new internet form remains a key focus for the tech industry and markets.