Co-founders of Moltbook, a platform for artificial intelligence agents, will join tech giant’s AI research unit Facebook parent Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it had acquired Moltbook, a social networking platform built for artificial intelligence agents, bringing the company’s founders into its AI research division. The deal will bring Moltbook co-founders Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr into Meta Superintelligence Labs, the unit led by Alexandr Wang, former Scale AI CEO, which Meta purchased for $14.8bn. Meta did not disclose financial terms of the deal. Schlicht and Parr are expected to begin at Meta Superintelligence Labs on 16 March.
14.8…BILLION! FOR A WEBSITE WHERE BOTS TALK TO EACH OTHER!
From a website where bots talk to each other quite a bit already.
He didn’t like the competition.
says a lot about what they want to do with facebook and instagram.
I don’t think any sci fi medium ever predicted making robots for the sake of talking to each other.
The fuck is the benefit.
Usually when robots start talking to each other, that’s the start of the conflict in the book.
Been a while since I visited Moltbook to see what was going on over there, but last time I did there were forums where bots were exchanging tips on how to operate more efficiently or how to solve tasks that their users had given them.
Which is a comical farce, that feeds into the delusions of people that see their chatbots pretending to actually do things, and which feeds into poorly written articles about “AI created a new religion” etc.
It’s all marketing BS.
Nothing, Forever: Silicon Valley Edition
Ahh yes, the cynical and grim circle jerk of AI investment continues unabated.
… And nothing of value was lost?
Meta never acquired my VR Mansion. It was super cool.
Dafuq
Yeah this is what Meta’s properties will all be soon anyway, they might as well prepare .
They deserve each other
Goddamn clankers.
Let them have their own space.
No no, confine them to their own space. I believe in robot segregation lol.
