Muse sure looks a lot like OpenClaw
The Verge says Meta’s Muse closely mirrors OpenClaw, which Meta calls inspiration, not a copy.
The Verge reports that Meta’s consumer agent Muse, estimated at 600,000 US daily users, shares OpenClaw core filenames such as SOUL.md and similar personality guidance, leading to claims it is a wrapper. Nat Friedman of Meta Superintelligence Labs said Muse was built from scratch but heavily inspired by OpenClaw. Messaging agent Instinct, discussed alongside a roughly $2.5 billion fundraising valuation, follows the same personal-assistant pattern. The article also says about 15 percent of OpenClaw skills were found to contain malicious instructions and that a researcher flagged a Muse zero-day that could hijack the agent.
- Muse shares OpenClaw filenames and similar personality-doc wording.
- Meta says Muse was built from scratch but inspired by OpenClaw.
- Apptopia estimates Muse has 600,000 US daily active users.
- The piece also cites a Muse hijack flaw and malicious OpenClaw skills.
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We seem to be entering into an AI agent renaissance. Meta's new consumer-facing AI agent, Muse, topped the App Store charts soon after its release and has 600,000 daily active users in the US, by an Apptopia estimate. And AI agent platform Instinct, whose eponymous creator is fundraising at a $2.
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