"Manus debuted in March 2025 and immediately pitched itself as a leap beyond generative AI chatbots, which it characterizes as best suited to summarizing information and answering questions. The outfit promotes its own services as enabling "wide research and context-aware reasoning to produce actionable results in the format you need." To illustrate that promise, Manus offers a scenario in which users ask its tech to select the best candidate for an job by evaluating job applications stored in a .ZIP file."
"The service does that in its own "computer" - a cloud-hosted VM - that Manus says "operates as a multi-agent system powered by several distinct models." Manus was created by a Chinese company called Butterfly Effect, which also operates an entity in Hong Kong an recently moved its headquarters to Singapore. The outfit recently claimed to have $100 million annual recurring revenue just eight months after launch."
Meta will acquire Chinese AI company Manus and integrate its general-agent technology across Meta products. Manus provides cloud-hosted virtual machines that run as multi-agent systems powered by several distinct models to perform wide research and context-aware reasoning and produce actionable results in requested formats. The platform can open .ZIP archives, read contained job applications, evaluate them against user-defined criteria, and generate ranked candidate documents. Manus was created by Butterfly Effect, which operates an entity in Hong Kong and recently moved its headquarters to Singapore. The firm reported $100 million annual recurring revenue eight months after launch and serves millions of users and businesses worldwide. Meta will bring Manus staff into its workforce and did not disclose the deal value.
Read at Theregister
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]