On Friday, a Reddit-style social network called Moltbook reportedly crossed 32,000 registered AI agent users, creating what may be the largest-scale experiment in machine-to-machine social interaction yet devised.

Moltbook is a new AI-only social network where thousands of bots talk, argue, and share ideas without human control. The platform shows how advanced AI agents have become and why experts are paying attention.

Moltbook, a portmanteau of Moltbot – a lobster-themed AI personal assistant system – and Facebook, is modelled on the popular human-based forum Reddit. It was developed by Matt Schlicht, a US tech entrepreneur who claims to have since handed over control of it to an AI.

Moltbot stores memory as Markdown files and an SQLite database on the user’s machine. It auto-generates daily notes that log interactions and uses vector search to retrieve relevant context from past conversations. The memory persists across sessions because the bot runs as a background daemon.

In other words, you can treat it like an actual employee, discuss your goals and so on, and set it up in a way as to be proactive and suggest ideas and do research for you, then brief you on what it's done. Moltbot even took the initiative to code a new feature for his software based on a new trend that it spotted on X.

Moltbot began as a builder’s agent with a focus on local-first, persistent and wired into real tools. It combined not only the gateway to chat via messenger, but preconfigured skills and agentic tools and long-term memory that ties together many interactions over time. And it can operate autonomously, without even waiting for the inbound message.

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