Nat Friedman admits Meta's Muse was inspired by OpenClaw, bought hundreds of Mac minis for the team
EdwardSun0909 · x · 2026-09-22
- Responding to the "Meta uses OpenClaw" rumor, Nat Friedman clarified that Muse was built from scratch but is heavily inspired by OpenClaw as a product.
- After using OpenClaw in January, he bought hundreds of Mac minis for the MSL team, and many fell in love with personal agents.
- He credits @steipete's harness as pioneering and says Muse aims to be an OpenClaw-like agent that is safe, secure, easy to use, and scalable to billions.
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