Meta admits Muse was heavily inspired by OpenClaw
Meta's product chief confirmed Muse was built from scratch but heavily inspired by OpenClaw, settling where the personal-agent design came from; watch licensing and ecosystem reactions next.
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Nat Friedman, head of product at Meta's Superintelligence Labs, acknowledged that Muse was built from scratch but was "definitely heavily inspired as a product by OpenClaw."
Pressed by developers on nearly identical workspace filenames and a SOUL.md configuration file with almost the same content, Friedman replied that OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger "got those things exactly right." TechCrunch reports Muse has hit No. 1 on the U.S. App Store and is outpacing ChatGPT's early mobile launch.
The statement is Meta's own response to community reverse-engineering, with no independent code audit; claims about Amazon blocking Muse, Shopify integration and the stock move were not verifiable within the evidence available for this item.