Muse sure looks a lot like OpenClaw

Meta's new consumer AI agent called Muse has risen to the top of app charts with hundreds of thousands of daily users, but some social media users claim it was directly built on OpenClaw, an earlier open-source AI agent platform, pointing to identical file names and similar documentation language. Meta denied the allegations of direct copying but acknowledged that Muse is "heavily inspired as a product" by OpenClaw and that the team kept certain OpenClaw file names and lines because they believed the original creator had gotten them "exactly right." OpenClaw demonstrated the potential of AI agents by allowing users to interact with them through messaging platforms like WhatsApp and Slack to accomplish everyday tasks, and it prompted major tech companies including OpenAI, Google, Apple, and Meta to pursue their own AI agent products. The key difference between these new platforms and their inspiration is that they aim to address OpenClaw's major security vulnerabilities, which included malware in popular skills and malicious code in a significant portion of the skill repository.