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.
Meta has acknowledged that its popular AI assistant, Muse, was heavily inspired by the open-source project OpenClaw. Head of product at Meta's Superintelligence Labs, Nat Friedman, confirmed that Muse was "definitely heavily inspired as a product by OpenClaw" despite being built from scratch. The team at Meta admired OpenClaw's success and sought to create a safer, secure, and user-friendly version that could be scaled to billions of people.
OpenClaw's creator, Peter Steinberger, praised Meta's effort, calling him a "genius" and acknowledging the pioneering nature of his work. The Muse app has quickly become a hit, reaching No. 1 on the U.S. App Store, and outpacing ChatGPT's launch in terms of market availability.
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