September 21, 2026
The story that Meta runs on OpenClaw is false: Muse was written from scratch in its image
Nat Friedman bought hundreds of Mac mini units for the MSL team back in January, when he started using OpenClaw himself. Muse grew out of that experience but was built from scratch.
Peter Steinberger 🦞
@steipete
Since the story that "Meta uses OpenClaw" is everywhere: they made their own agent inspired by it. Nat and the team did great work. Respect!
Nat Friedman @natfriedman
we built muse from scratch, but it is definitely heavily inspired as a product by openclaw. After I used openclaw in january I bought hundreds of mac minis for the MSL team and lots of us fell in love with using openclaw (and other personal agents). @steipete is a genius and his harness was pioneering from the jump. I think a lot of people were inspired by it. our goal with muse was to build something like openclaw that we could make safe and secure and easy to use and scale to billions of people.
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Nat Friedman bought hundreds of Mac mini units for the MSL team back in January, when he started using OpenClaw himself. Muse grew out of that experience but was built from scratch.
Meta's long-term plan is to bring Muse to a level where billions of people use the agent.
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