Muse sure looks a lot like OpenClaw
Meta's new AI agent, Muse, has rapidly gained popularity but faces allegations of being directly built on the open-source platform OpenClaw. While Meta denies copying the code, its product head admits the tool is heavily inspired by OpenClaw and shares identical file structures and personality directives. Competitor Instinct also mirrors OpenClaw's messaging-based approach, highlighting the significant influence of the original platform on the current AI agent market.
- ▪Muse has reached 600,000 daily active users in the US and topped App Store charts shortly after its release.
- ▪Social media users claim Muse is a wrapper for OpenClaw due to identical core file names like SOUL.md and matching personality code lines.
- ▪Nat Friedman, head of Meta's Superintelligence Labs, stated that Muse was built from scratch but acknowledged it is heavily inspired by OpenClaw.
- ▪Instinct, another AI agent platform, is fundraising at a $2.5 billion valuation and utilizes similar messaging-based interactions as OpenClaw.
- ▪OpenClaw originated as a one-man weekend project that transformed AI agents from a proof of concept into a useful tool within ten months.
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