Meta’s Muse Explicitly Credited as Heavily Inspired by OpenClaw

Nat Friedman (Meta) stated publicly that Muse was built from scratch but is “definitely heavily inspired as a product by openclaw.” After using OpenClaw in January the team bought hundreds of Mac minis and fell in love with the pattern. Goal was a safer, scalable version of the same idea.

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Confirms OpenClaw’s foundational influence on a major commercial agent. Useful context for anyone positioning open-source computer-use agents against big-tech offerings.

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