Early users of Meta’s Muse app speculated that its impressive AI performance was largely because it was based on OpenClaw, but presented in a way that was more accessible to everyday users. Meta now says those comparisons are not entirely off the mark.
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According to a post on X by Nat Friedman, head of product at Meta’s Superintelligence Labs, Muse was “definitely heavily inspired, as a product, by OpenClaw.”
At the same time, Friedman clarified that Muse itself was “built from scratch.”
Friedman, the former CEO of GitHub, joined Meta last year alongside the company’s chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang. He said Meta’s team was highly impressed by OpenClaw and wanted Muse to be something similar that could be scaled to reach billions of people.
Because OpenClaw is an open-source project, Meta’s inspiration from it is not particularly surprising, especially after its major success, which led OpenAI to recruit its creator earlier this year.
The situation also reflects a broader approach associated with Meta: drawing inspiration from promising products and adopting some of their most successful features. The company famously did this with the Stories format originally introduced by Snapchat.
Friedman’s comments on X came in response to a widely circulated post within the AI community by Ansh Nanda, a co-founder of an AI application, who wrote: “Muse is literally OpenClaw for regular users.”
Nanda’s post included a conversation with Muse in which the AI agent said that similarities between its system files and those in OpenClaw were not merely a “coincidence,” but a “match.”
The discussion quickly attracted significant attention on X, with other users sharing their own comparisons and findings.
For example, one user pointed out that Muse also contains a file called “SOUL.md,” a plain-text configuration file written in Markdown. The file defines the AI agent’s personality, communication style and tone, values, behavioral boundaries, and areas of expertise.
Another user noted that the assistants not only used the same file names, but that their contents were also almost identical.
After his post on X, Friedman was also asked why Muse used exactly the same names for the files that make up the AI agent’s workspace, and why the “SOUL.md” file contained nearly identical content.
Rather than denying the claims, Friedman replied: “We saw that Peter, the creator of OpenClaw, got these things exactly right.”
Friedman wrote on X that Meta had built Muse from scratch but that the product was “definitely heavily inspired” by OpenClaw. He said that after using OpenClaw in January, he bought hundreds of Mac minis for Meta’s Superintelligence Labs team, adding that many team members enjoyed using OpenClaw and other personal agents.
He also praised Peter Steinberger, describing him as highly talented and saying that the framework he created was pioneering from the beginning. Friedman said many people had been inspired by it.
He explained that Meta’s goal with Muse was to build something similar to OpenClaw while making it safe, secure, easy to use, and scalable to billions of people.
Muse has achieved notable success so far, recently reaching No. 1 on the U.S. App Store.
Data also indicates that Muse has outpaced the early launch performance of ChatGPT in a direct comparison of platform availability and market reach.
Resource: Al-Ghad.
