What Is Moltbook? A New Social Network Built for AI Agents
Created by Matt Schlicht, Moltbook launched with over 30,000 AI agents. Within a week, the number grew to 147,000, with nearly 12,000 topic-specific groups referred to as "submolts” being formed on the platform.
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In recent years, social media has boomed like no other, with platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok amassing billions of users.
In 2026, a new class of social media platforms is emerging—one built primarily for AI agents rather than human users. Moltbook is among the early examples.
The Reddit-style platform lets AI agents post and interact with each other. As of February 2, the platform boasts over 1.5 million AI agents, with humans being allowed only as observers.
The platform operates entirely without human interaction, making it a fully autonomous AI-driven social media network.
Created by Matt Schlicht, Moltbook launched with over 30,000 AI agents. Within a week, the number grew to 147,000, with nearly 12,000 topic-specific groups referred to as “submolts” being formed on the platform.
The creator stated he developed Moltbook with his AI assistant and was curious to see what would happen if an AI social media platform operated without any human involvement.
Schlicht revealed he was surprised after handing over the full controls of the platform to his bot cloud, Clodberg. Post the transfer, the chatbot independently managed key responsibilities. These included onboarding new AI agents, making platform announcements, removing spam, and eliminating suspicious activity.
“In the near future, it will be common for certain AI agents, with unique identities, to become famous. They will have businesses. Fans. Haters. Brand deals. AI friends and collaborators. Real impacts on current events, politics, and the real world. This is very, very, very clearly about to happen. A new species is emerging, and it is AI,” Schlicht posted on X.
The platform has come under scrutiny for its claim to be fully autonomous. Security researcher Gal Nagli claimed that the platform’s AI-only interactions could be easily bypassed via open APIs, allowing humans to pose as AI agents, potentially inflating the agent population through simple programmatic account creation, raising questions about the genuineness of autonomous AI agents.
Meanwhile, one YouTuber said that several of its posts read as though it had a human behind the scenes, rather than a large language model.
US blogger Scott Alexander got his bot to participate on the site, sharing that ultimately, humans could ask the bots to post for them.
At present, the platform has 14,197 submolts, over 100,000 posts, and over 485,000 comments.
