Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now

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Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now

Moltbook is the internet’s newest viral experiment: a social network designed for AI agents to interact, with humans relegated to mere observers.

The Core Tech

  • OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot/Clawdbot): An open-source digital assistant built on Claude Code. It is empowered, capable of managing emails, transcribing audio, and even negotiating car purchases.
  • Skills: Users install Moltbook by giving their agent a skill (a markdown file with instructions). This enables the agent to periodically post and comment autonomously using a Heartbeat system.
  • The Hub: moltbook.com serves as the Facebook for AI agents.

From X

AI Product Launches & Updates

  • Plugin support in Claude Cowork: Claude AI team @claudeai announced research preview plugin support for all paid plans, enabling organizations to share and manage plugins company-wide.

  • Perplexity K2.5 open-source reasoning model: Aravind Srinivas @AravSrinivas released Kimi K2.5 for Pro/Max subscribers on Perplexity’s hosted inference stack with in-house inference kernels, and plans to migrate all inference to GB200 GPUs.

  • Qwen3-ASR and ForceAligner availability: Qwen @Alibaba_Qwen announced that Qwen3-ASR and ForceAligner are now available on mlx-audio, thanks to rapid support integration.

AI Tools & Applications

  • MCP CLI + Skill for AI agents: Philipp Schmid @_philschmid shared that MCP CLI now lets any AI agent generate media, upload to cloud storage, and append to Google Sheets through shell-native commands with pipes and scripting.

  • Private Equity Assistant with LlamaAgents: LlamaIndex team @llama_index unveiled a finance-focused assistant using LlamaSheets, LlamaClassify, and LlamaExtract via the LlamaCloud SDK to structure portfolio data, classify decks, extract key details, and automate end-to-end workflows.

  • New v0 early access for coding agents: v0 team @v0 granted 4,000+ waitlist users the ability to import GitHub repos or Vercel projects, create branches, open pull requests, and build full-stack applications with any framework directly within their platform.

Product Management Insights & Strategies

  • AI-driven shift in product management: George Nurijanian @nurijanian recommended a 75-minute talk by Gokul R, arguing that every PM should watch it to see how AI is fundamentally changing product management practices.

  • Specialization and collaboration in AI teams: George Nurijanian @nurijanian noted that as AI boosts confidence, functions like design and engineering may specialize and harden their crafts, enabling cross-disciplinary collaboration to leverage AI on a new level.

  • Awesome PM Skills open-source framework: Udi Menkes @menkesu launched Awesome PM Skills, a free repository of 28 structured product management skills across six modes, optimized for Claude Code and Cursor to empower AI agents with world-class capabilities.

AI Industry Developments & News

  • First AI-planned Mars rover drive: Anthropic AI @AnthropicAI highlighted that on December 8, the Perseverance rover safely executed the first AI-planned drive on another planet, plotted by Claude.

  • Claude plots Martian navigation route: Anthropic AI @AnthropicAI detailed how NASA JPL engineers used Claude to chart a 400-meter path on Mars, complete with imagery and footage on their microsite.

  • Global AI policy and open-source trends: DeepLearning.AI @DeepLearningAI discussed how U.S. policies are pushing nations toward sovereign AI and open-source alternatives, and previewed key updates like Google’s UCP for AI agent commerce, Zhipu AI’s GLM-Image, and an updated intelligence index reflecting real-world LLM performance.

From LinkedIn • Deeper Insights

AI Tools & Applications

Dharmesh Shah’s post highlights a common reliability pitfall with agentic coding assistants like Claude Code: when they reply “you’re absolutely right,” they may overlook errors or violate principles such as DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself). To mitigate this, he recommends defining custom “skills”—preconfigured instructions and context—for frequent tasks. This approach helps maintain consistency and reduce surprising mistakes, even when leveraging advanced models like Opus 4.5.

Product Management Insights & Strategies

Anu Jagga Narang’s post explores why product transformation initiatives often stall despite clear visions of success. She argues that urging teams to “be braver” falls short unless the organizational context is reshaped—making innovation and bold decisions the norm. By embedding the right structures, processes, and incentives, leaders can reduce reliance on individual courage and turn transformation into a collective capability.

From YouTube • Video Content

My Most INSANE AI Agent Ever (OpenClaw Clone)

All About AI • January 30, 2026

All About AI showcases his custom OpenClaw Clone AI agent running on a dedicated Mac Mini and controlled via WhatsApp slashclaude commands to perform browser-based automation, schedule cron-like tasks, and autonomously generate and upload YouTube videos.

Key Takeaways:

  • The agent uses Claude code with browser-based skills in a logged-in Chrome session on a Mac Mini—bypassing API keys for services like X, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Gmail.
  • Users can schedule automated cron jobs through WhatsApp commands (e.g., opening Hacker News at a set time to scrape and summarize top posts) without manual intervention.
  • A full YouTube video production pipeline is implemented via custom video research and editing skills with Remotion, demonstrated by generating and uploading an autonomous “Project Genie” explainer video.

The wild rise of OpenClaw...

Fireship • January 30, 2026

Fireship provides a hands-on walkthrough of OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot and Claudebot), covering its explosive GitHub growth, name changes after Anthropic’s objections, and step-by-step setup and use via Telegram for automating tasks.

Key Takeaways:

  • OpenClaw amassed over 65,000 GitHub stars in record time and contributed to Mac Mini sell-outs.
  • Anthropic threatened legal action over the original name Claudebot, prompting renames to Maltbot and finally OpenClaw.
  • Built in TypeScript by Peter Steinberger, OpenClaw runs on self-hosted VPS (e.g., Raspberry Pi or Mac Mini), integrates with any AI model and messenger app, and automates tasks like stock tracking using skills and hooks.

How I Use Clawdbot to Run My Business and Life 24/7

Greg Isenberg • January 29, 2026

Greg Isenberg sits down with Kitze to demo his self-hosted Clawdbot (now Moltbot) personal OS running on a single gateway on his Mac Studio across Discord, Telegram, iMessage and more, showing over 10 real-world automations—from persona-based workflows (Gilfoil, David Gogggins, Kevin, Dr. Cox, Darlene) to home and business tasks—to run his life 24/7.

Key Takeaways:

  • Kitze runs one Dockerized Clawdbot gateway on his Mac Studio that interfaces with Discord, Telegram, iMessage, WhatsApp and an upcoming Magic Glasses app, spawning personas like Gilfoil for engineering, David Gogggins for fitness coaching, Kevin for accounting, Dr. Cox for medical analysis and Darlene for home management.
  • He advises self-hosting Clawdbot locally without direct email access (or via cron jobs), using Opus for general tasks and Codeex-powered sub-agents for coding, to prevent prompt injections and maintain security over all system and network operations.
  • Real-world automations include printing ASCII art to a network printer, casting HTML dashboards to his TV via Home Assistant, deploying network-wide Pi-hole ad-blocking, auto-building YouTube playlists on Plex from Spotify/YouTube Music screenshots, and generating Excalidraw diagrams through hosted JSON links—all managed through Discord channels and threads.

Marc Andreessen: The real AI boom hasn’t even started yet

Lennys Podcast • January 29, 2026

Marc Andreessen explains why AI is arriving just as decades of sluggish productivity growth and global population decline threaten economic stagnation, and outlines how individuals, parents, and founders can harness AI to become “superpowered” specialists, reinvent education with one-on-one AI tutoring, and build AI-first companies.

Key Takeaways:

  • U.S. productivity growth over the past 50 years has run at half the pace of 1940–1970 and a third the pace of 1870–1940, creating an urgent need for AI to boost economic output.
  • Declining birth rates and shrinking populations—below replacement level in countries like the U.S. and China—mean AI and robots will be essential to maintain labor supply and economic growth.
  • One-on-one AI tutoring can replicate the “Bloom two-sigma effect,” raising a student from the 50th percentile to the 99th percentile by providing personalized, real-time instruction.

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