STORY: Facebook parent Meta Platforms on Tuesday said it acquired Moltbook, a social networking platform built for AI agents.
Moltbook is a Reddit-like site where AI-powered bots appear to swap code and gossip about their human owners.
It was started as a niche experiment in late January, and has since become the center of a growing debate on how close computers are to possessing human-like intelligence.
Meta's purchase of the platform signals how intense the AI race has become among tech giants...
especially as AI agents capable of executing real-world tasks move from novelty to the industry's next frontier.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has played down Moltbook as a likely fad but said the underlying technology offered a glimpse of the future.
The deal will bring Moltbook co-founders Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr into Meta Superintelligence Labs.
Meta did not disclose financial terms of the deal.
