Meta admits Muse’s likeness to OpenClaw isn’t a coincidence
Meta admits Muse’s likeness to OpenClaw isn’t a coincidence
Meta 承认 Muse 与 OpenClaw 的相似并非巧合
Early adopters of Meta’s Muse have been speculating that the reason the AI works so well is because it’s OpenClaw under the hood, wrapped in a more consumer-friendly package. Meta now says those comparisons aren’t entirely off-base. Meta Muse 的早期用户一直在猜测，这款 AI 之所以表现如此出色，是因为其内核其实就是 OpenClaw，只是被包装成了更适合大众消费者的产品。Meta 现在表示，这些对比并非完全没有根据。
According to an X post by Nat Friedman, head of product at Meta’s Superintelligence Labs (MSL), Muse was “definitely heavily inspired as a product by OpenClaw.” However, he clarified that Muse itself was “built from scratch.” Friedman, the former GitHub CEO who joined Meta last year alongside Meta’s Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang, said that the team at Meta had fallen in love with OpenClaw and wanted Muse to be “something like OpenClaw” that could be scaled to billions of people. 根据 Meta 超智能实验室（MSL）产品负责人 Nat Friedman 在 X 上发布的帖子，Muse “在产品层面确实深受 OpenClaw 的启发”。不过，他澄清说 Muse 本身是“从零开始构建的”。Friedman 是前 GitHub 首席执行官，去年与 Meta 首席 AI 官 Alexandr Wang 一同加入 Meta。他表示，Meta 团队爱上了 OpenClaw，并希望 Muse 能成为“类似 OpenClaw 的产品”，从而能够扩展到数十亿用户。
Because OpenClaw is an open source project, it wouldn’t be surprising that Meta looked to it for inspiration, especially given its breakout success, which prompted OpenAI to snatch up its creator earlier this year. However, it speaks to Meta’s well-known playbook that involves taking promising products, then copying their best features — something it did most notoriously with Snapchat’s invention of the stories format. 由于 OpenClaw 是一个开源项目，Meta 从中汲取灵感并不令人意外，尤其是考虑到它取得了突破性的成功，甚至促使 OpenAI 在今年早些时候挖走了其创始人。然而，这也反映了 Meta 众所周知的“剧本”：即发掘有前景的产品，然后复制其核心功能——最臭名昭著的例子就是它对 Snapchat “故事”（Stories）格式的抄袭。
Friedman’s statement on X was made in response to a post that had gone viral among the AI crowd, where Ansh Nanda, an AI app co-founder, claimed that “Muse is LITERALLY OpenClaw for normies.” Nanda’s X post had included a conversation with Muse, where the AI agent said that the similarity between its own system files and those belonging to OpenClaw was not just “a coincidence” but rather “a match.” Friedman 在 X 上的声明是为了回应 AI 圈内一篇疯传的帖子。AI 应用联合创始人 Ansh Nanda 在帖中声称，“Muse 简直就是普通人版的 OpenClaw”。Nanda 的帖子中包含了一段与 Muse 的对话，其中该 AI 代理表示，其系统文件与 OpenClaw 系统文件之间的相似之处不仅仅是“巧合”，而是“完全匹配”。
Soon, this thread (and X more broadly) began blowing up as others shared their own comparisons and findings. For instance, one person pointed out that Muse also had a SOUL.md file, the plain text configuration file (written in a simple formatting language called Markdown) that defines an AI agent’s personality, communication style and tone, values, behavioral boundaries, and expertise. A third noted that the files weren’t just named the same between the two assistants; their content was almost entirely the same. 很快，这个讨论串（以及整个 X 平台）开始炸锅，其他人也纷纷分享了自己的对比和发现。例如，有人指出 Muse 也有一个 SOUL.md 文件——这是一个纯文本配置文件（使用名为 Markdown 的简单格式语言编写），用于定义 AI 代理的个性、沟通风格与语调、价值观、行为边界和专业知识。还有人指出，这两个助手不仅文件名相同，其内容也几乎完全一致。
Following his X post, Friedman also responded to a question about why Muse had copied the exact file names that made up the AI agent’s workspace and had “nearly identical content” for the SOUL.md file. Instead of disputing these claims, Friedman simply replied that “we thought that Peter [Steinberger, OpenClaw’s creator] got those things exactly right.” 在发布 X 帖子后，Friedman 还回应了一个问题：为什么 Muse 复制了构成 AI 代理工作区的确切文件名，并且 SOUL.md 文件的内容“几乎完全相同”。Friedman 没有反驳这些说法，只是简单地回答道：“我们认为 Peter [Steinberger，OpenClaw 的创始人] 在这些方面做得非常正确。”
“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), Friedman said on X. “@steipete [Peter Steinberger] 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,” he wrote. “我们是从零开始构建 Muse 的，但它在产品层面确实深受 OpenClaw 的启发。我在一月份使用 OpenClaw 后，为 MSL 团队购买了数百台 Mac mini，我们很多人都爱上了使用 OpenClaw（以及其他个人代理），”Friedman 在 X 上说道。“@steipete [Peter Steinberger] 是个天才，他的框架从一开始就是开创性的。我认为很多人都受到了它的启发。我们开发 Muse 的目标是构建一个像 OpenClaw 那样的产品，使其安全、可靠、易于使用，并能扩展到数十亿用户，”他写道。
The Muse app has been something of a hit so far, having recently hit No. 1 on the U.S. App Store. Data indicates that it’s now outpacing ChatGPT’s launch when the platforms and market availability are compared directly. Reached for comment, a Meta spokesperson pointed to Friedman’s statement, saying the company had nothing more to add beyond that. Muse 应用目前相当受欢迎，最近登上了美国 App Store 的榜首。数据显示，在直接对比平台和市场可用性时，它的增长速度已经超过了 ChatGPT 发布时的表现。在被问及评论时，Meta 发言人指向了 Friedman 的声明，并表示公司对此没有更多补充。