Meta admits Muse’s likeness to OpenClaw isn’t a coincidence

Early adopters of Meta’s Muse have been speculating that the reason the AI works so well is because it’s OpenClaw under the hood, wrapped in a more consumer-friendly package. Meta now says those comparisons aren’t entirely off-base. According to an X post by Nat Friedman, head of product at Meta’s Superintelligence Labs (MSL), Muse was “definitely heavily inspired as a product by OpenClaw.”

However, he clarified that Muse itself was “built from scratch.”

Friedman, the former GitHub CEO who joined Meta last year alongside Meta’s Chief AI Officer, Alexandr Wang , said that the team at Meta had fallen in love with OpenClaw and wanted Muse to be “something like OpenClaw” that could be scaled to billions of people.