Muse Reached the top of the U.S. App Store free charts days after launch; claims about market impact remain unverified

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Muse was exposed as looking strikingly similar to OpenClaw，Meta admitted to being “heavily inspired”

Dongcha Beating AI breaking news,Meta responded to Muse’s resemblance to OpenClaw controversy.Meta Nat Friedman, head of product at the Muse was indeed “heavily inspired by OpenClaw was indeed “heavily inspired by OpenClaw,” but the product was built from scratch rather than running Muse on directly.

The community became suspicious mainly because the two workspaces look so similar.SOUL.md`、`IDENTITY.md`、`USER.md`、`MEMORY.md`、`AGENTS.md`、`TOOLS was found to contain files such as `OpenClaw.md`.Agent also uses the same design to store SOUL.md’s personality, user information, memories, and operating rules. Comparisons by the community also found that the contents of both parties’ `January` were nearly identical.

Friedman did not deny these similarities. He said that this year he OpenClaw used Meta and then bought hundreds of Mac minis for the OpenClaw and other personal Agent and other personal SOUL.md s.

When someone asked why even the filenames and `OpenClaw` were so similar, he replied that the team believed that Peter Steinberger, the author of the “things,” “got all of this exactly right.”

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Key points

Meta Nat Friedman, product lead at the superintelligence lab, said that Muse was indeed “heavily inspired by OpenClaw.”
Meta said that Muse was built from scratch rather than directly running OpenClaw。
Muse and OpenClaw both use SOUL.md、IDENTITY.md、USER.md、MEMORY.md、AGENTS.md、TOOLS.md files, among others.
The community comparison claims that the two sides'SOUL.md content is almost identical.
Nat Friedman said that this year January after using OpenClaw, he purchased for Meta the superintelligence laboratory team hundreds of Mac minis.
Nat Friedman said that the team believes OpenClaw author Peter Steinberger “got these things completely right”.

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Muse and OpenClaw both use a set of files to store Agent personality, user information, memories, and operating rules, leading the community to believe that their designs are highly similar.Meta acknowledges being inspired by it, but states that Muse does not run directly OpenClaw。

Why it matters to readers

This suggests that OpenClaw the file organization may have influenced Muse the product design, and has also raised community concerns about the degree of similarity.

These files can be understood as Agent instructions, identity information, memories, and rules for using tools.

Risks and unknowns

Muse and OpenClaw the specific code relationship between them is unclear; the evidence does not explain it.
“SOUL.md the community comparison claiming that their content is “almost identical”; the evidence provides no specific content or independent verification.
Meta the technical details of its claimed “built from scratch” approach; the evidence does not explain them.

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