Meta admits Muse’s likeness to OpenClaw isn’t a coincidence
Meta says Muse was built from scratch, but acknowledges the AI assistant was "heavily inspired" by OpenClaw — down to some of its workspace filenames and content.
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Meta's AI product Muse was heavily inspired by OpenClaw, an open source AI project, according to Meta's head of product at its Superintelligence Labs. While Meta built Muse from scratch, the company copied OpenClaw's file names and structure, including a configuration file called SOUL.md with nearly identical content. Meta justified this by saying the OpenClaw creator "got those things exactly right" and that the team wanted to build something like OpenClaw that could be scaled to billions of people. This reflects Meta's broader pattern of taking inspiration from successful products and copying their features, as it previously did with Snapchat's stories format.
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