Nat Friedman: Meta's Muse built from scratch but 'heavily inspired' by OpenClaw
Nat Friedman commented that Meta's Muse model was built from scratch but was 'heavily inspired' by OpenClaw, as users compared the two and even called Muse 'OpenClaw for normies.' The remarks come amid early adopter speculation about why the AI works as it does.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Nat Friedman says Meta built Muse “from scratch” but was “heavily inspired” by OpenClaw, as users compare the two, including calling Muse “OpenClaw for normies” — Early adopters of Meta's Muse have been speculating that the reason the AI works …
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