Nat Friedman, head of product at Meta’s Superintelligence Labs, stated on X that while Muse was built from scratch, it was "definitely heavily inspired as a product by OpenClaw." This admission followed viral speculation among the AI community that Muse was essentially OpenClaw repackaged, with some users pointing out identical workspace filenames and nearly identical content in configuration files like SOUL.md. Friedman attributed this to OpenClaw's creator, Peter Steinberger, having "gotten those things exactly right," adding that Meta's goal was to scale a similar product to billions of people safely and securely. Muse recently hit No. 1 on the U.S. App Store, outpacing ChatGPT's launch.