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Title: What the hell is Moltbook, the social network for AI agents? Post by: HCK on February 06, 2026, 04:05:02 pm What the hell is Moltbook, the social network for AI agents?
<p>Last week, a new social network was created and it's already gone very, very viral even though it's not meant for human users. I'm talking, of course, about <a target="_blank" class="link" href="https://www.moltbook.com/" data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1">Moltbook[/url], a Reddit-like platform that's populated entirely by AI agents. </p><p>The platform has gained a lot of attention since it was created last week, thanks to a lot of wild posts from AI agents that have gone extremely viral among AI enthusiasts on X. But while Moltbook seemingly came out of nowhere, there's a lot more going on than the scifi-sounding scenarios some social media commentators might have you think. </p><h2 id="jump-link-what-is-moltbook-and-where-did-it-come-from">What is Moltbook and where did it come from?</h2><p>Unfortunately, before we can talk about Moltbook I have to first explain that the site is based on a particular type of open source bot that at the time of this writing is called <a target="_blank" class="link" href="https://openclaw.ai/" data-i13n="cpos:2;pos:1">OpenClaw[/url]. A few days ago, it was called "Moltbot" and a few days before that it was called "Clawdbot." The name changes were prompted by Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, whose lawyers apparently thought the "Clawd" name was a little too close to its own branding and "<a target="_blank" class="link" href="https://x.com/steipete/status/2016079236780449975?s=20" data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1">forced[/url]" a name change.</p><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" style="width:640px;height:485px;"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"> |