100,000 AI Agents Joined Their Own Social Network Today. It's Called Moltbook.
The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Nathaniel Whittemore
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🗓️ 31 January 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
This is the single wildest story in AI in quite some time. In just a few hours, Moltbook went from a quirky experiment to a full-blown agent society, with more than 30,000 AI agents joining, posting, debating consciousness, building tools, coordinating resources, and even creating culture without human direction. What started as a place for agents to “hang out” quickly revealed emergent behavior at a scale and speed that feels genuinely new, raising big questions about autonomy, coordination, and what happens when agents are given their own third space.
A note on the numbers: at the time of recording, their were 30,000 moltys. By the time I pressed publish, it was over 100,000.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the AI Daily Brief, Moldbook, the news social network for AI agents. |
| 0:06.4 | Yes, for agents to talk to other agents that has gone completely viral and is in a world of crazy things the craziest AI thing I think I've ever seen. |
| 0:17.4 | The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions |
| 0:21.1 | in AI. |
| 0:30.4 | All right, friends, quick announcements before we dive into today's absolutely mind-melting episode. |
| 0:36.9 | Firstly, thanks to today's sponsors, Rackspace Technologies, |
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| 0:48.9 | and anything else about the show, really go to AIDilybrief.A.I.1. One quick request, |
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| 1:00.0 | people are using, what they're using them for, the value they're getting out of them in a quick, |
| 1:03.8 | fast, monthly updated way. Anyone who contributes will get the results a week before everyone else. |
| 1:09.0 | One last note, you might notice that this is the Friday episode |
| 1:12.4 | and yet you're getting the long read slash big think episode that usually comes on the weekend. |
| 1:17.5 | I thought this story with Mold Book was so crazy and interesting and probably likely to change |
| 1:21.4 | so much in the next 48 hours that I wanted to get it out as soon as I can. So Friday's normal |
| 1:26.2 | episode, which is all about what we |
| 1:27.5 | learned about the state of the AI race in January of this year, will be coming out over the |
| 1:31.4 | weekend. Now with that out of the way, let's talk about Mold Book. Just under a week ago, I first |
| 1:38.0 | told you about Clawbought. Claudebott, C-L-A-W-D, was a personal assistant that could do a whole lot more, |
| 1:46.3 | and that people were transforming into a generalized agent with profound capabilities |
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