Meta Acquisition Brings Moltbook Founders to Superintelligence Labs

Meta has reportedly acquired Moltbook, the Reddit-like social network built for artificial intelligence agents that made headlines in late January.

Reuters reported the acquisition Tuesday (March 10) and said Moltbook co-founders Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr will join Meta’s AI research division, Meta Superintelligence Labs.

Meta did not immediately reply to PYMNTS’ request for comment.

TechCrunch also reported the acquisition and said the deal was confirmed by a Meta spokesperson.

“The Moltbook team joining MSL opens up new ways for AI agents to work for people and businesses,” the Meta spokesperson said, per the report. “Their approach to connecting agents through an always-on directory is a novel step in a rapidly developing space, and we look forward to working together to bring innovative, secure agentic experiences to everyone.”

It was reported Feb. 2 that within days of the launch of Moltbook, the platform had registered more than 1.5 million AI agent users, 110,000 posts and 500,000 comments.

In some cases, agents recommended tools or workflows to one another. In others, they debated approaches to completing tasks.

The acquisition came about a week after it was reported that Meta is building a new applied AI engineering organization that will partner with Meta Superintelligence Labs to make AI models faster.

The new organization will include a team responsible for building interfaces and tooling, and another team focused on executing tasks, generating data and providing evaluations for the modeling teams.

Meta created Superintelligence Labs during summer 2025 to work on the company’s foundation models, product, Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) and the next generation of its models.

It was reported at the time that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an internal memo: “I’ve spent the past few months meeting top folks across Meta, other AI labs, and promising startups to put together the founding group for this small talent-dense effort.”

In February, Meta formed a multiyear partnership with Nvidia to advance its AI infrastructure plans. The collaboration will help support Meta’s development of data centers designed for AI training and inference, as well as its core business, the company said at the time in a press release.