**[Muse Found to Resemble OpenClaw, Meta Admits "Heavily Inspired"]** Beating AI News Flash: Meta has responded to the controversy surrounding Muse's similarity to OpenClaw. Nat Friedman, Head of Product at Meta's Superintelligence Lab, stated that Muse was indeed "heavily inspired by OpenClaw," but emphasized that the product was built from scratch and does not directly run OpenClaw. The community's suspicion primarily stems from the striking resemblance between the two workspaces. Muse was found to include files such as `SOUL.md`, `IDENTITY.md`, `USER.md`, `MEMORY.md`, `AGENTS.md`, and `TOOLS.md`. OpenClaw also uses the same design framework to store agent personalities, user information, memories, and operational rules. Upon comparison, the community discovered that the content of both `SOUL.md` files is nearly identical. Friedman did not deny these similarities. He revealed that after using OpenClaw in January of this year, he purchased hundreds of Mac minis for the Meta Superintelligence Lab team. Many team members subsequently began using OpenClaw and other personal agents. When asked why even the file names and `SOUL.md` were so similar, Friedman responded that the team believes OpenClaw's creator, Peter Steinberger, "got these things absolutely right." [Original Link]