What you need to know about Manus, the new AI agentic system from China hailed as a second ‘DeepSeek moment’
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Summary
China’s Butterfly Effect company has released an AI product called Manus, which offers a framework for controlling a range of AI products designed to autonomously complete complex tasks.
It is built on top of Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Alibaba’s Qwen AI models, using them to form a multi-agent system which can handle a variety of tasks from reporting to deploying code.
In terms of performance, it benchmarks better than OpenAI’s o3-powered Deep Research, and has been shown to work effectively on platforms like Upwork.
It remains to be seen whether it is truly original or just a different combination of existing technologies, while questions remain about its business model and the scalability of its uses.
It is currently in private beta, with invites distributed by the Butterfly Effect, and isn’t yet generally available.