Meta admits Muse’s likeness to OpenClaw isn’t a coincidence
Meta product chief Nat Friedman admits the Muse AI assistant was heavily inspired by open-source agent OpenClaw, though built from scratch.
Nat Friedman, head of product at Meta's Superintelligence Labs, said on X that Muse was 'definitely heavily inspired as a product by OpenClaw' but was built from scratch. Users found Muse's agent workspace files, including a SOUL.md personality configuration, nearly identical in name and content to OpenClaw's, whose creator Peter Steinberger Friedman called a genius. Muse recently hit No. 1 on the U.S. App Store and is outpacing ChatGPT's launch trajectory on comparable platforms.
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