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.
They wanted a platform that had fewer bots than facebook
StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
14.8…BILLION! FOR A WEBSITE WHERE BOTS TALK TO EACH OTHER!
civ@lemmy.civl.cc 3 weeks ago
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.
StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Thanks, scrolling on lunch. Will read when home.
XLE@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
From a website where bots talk to each other quite a bit already.
Dultas@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
He didn’t like the competition.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
says a lot about what they want to do with facebook and instagram.