Meta admits Muse copied OpenClaw's design

Meta has acknowledged that its AI assistant Muse was heavily inspired by open source project OpenClaw. Nat Friedman, head of product at Meta's Superintelligence Labs, confirmed the similarities after users discovered nearly identical file names and content between the two AI agents, including a SOUL.md configuration file. Friedman insisted Muse was built from scratch but praised OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger as a genius, saying Meta wanted to scale a similar product to billions of users. Despite the controversy, Muse has reached No. 1 on the U.S. App Store and is outpacing ChatGPT's early growth.