Meta has bought Moltbook, the AI agent ‘social network’

Do you remember the name? Moltbook, the vibe-coded platform, famous for an unsecured database that let humans impersonate AI agents, is joining Meta Superintelligence Labs.

Moltbook was, in many ways, a product of chaos. Its code was written almost entirely by an AI assistant. Its security was so porous that anyone with basic technical knowledge could pose as a bot. Some of its most viral moments, including a post in which an AI agent appeared to be rallying other agents to develop a secret, human-proof language, were subsequently revealed to have been staged by human users exploiting those vulnerabilities. None of this, it turns out, was disqualifying.

Meta has acquired the platform, the company confirmed to TechCrunch.

The deal, first reported by Axios, brings Moltbook’s co-founders Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr into Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), the research unit run by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang. Financial terms ...