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Meta admits Muse’s likeness to OpenClaw isn’t a coincidence
Publisher description: 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.
TechCrunch | Sep 22, 2026 | Sarah Perez
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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. 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.
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