Meta share in view after strategic acquisition: platform for autonomous AI agents acquired

With the purchase of the Moltbook service, the development team will move to Meta’s research laboratory for artificial intelligence, the company confirmed to US media such as the broadcaster CNBC and the New York Times. A purchase price was not mentioned.

Moltbook is a social network for so-called AI agents – software with artificial intelligence that can carry out tasks largely independently on behalf of human users and access various apps, websites and other services. The platform was only set up in January by Californian tech investor Matt Schlicht. According to his own statements, he outsourced the programming work for this to AI software.

Sensational conversations

Moltbook made a few headlines at the beginning – because, among other things, you could read how AI programs talked about their users or discussed philosophical topics. However, it remained unclear whether these were all actually conversations conducted by AI – or whether operators of the bots could have manipulated some of them in order to get more attention through unusual statements. IT security experts also warned of serious risks because many AI agents know large amounts of confidential data such as passwords.

Meta said the acquisition should open up new ways for AI agents to be active for people and companies. In addition to Facebook, the group also includes the photo and video platform Instagram and the chat service WhatsApp. Meta is already experimenting with AI functions on a large scale in its services.

In NASDAQ trading, the Meta share was temporarily 0.21 percent lower at $652.70.

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