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According to Bloomberg, Manus AI, a general-purpose AI agent from Chinese startup Butterfly Effect, has secured $75 million in funding. This translates to approximately 547 million RMB and was led by Benchmark, a prominent US venture capital firm, with participation from existing investors. This round catapults Butterfly Effect's valuation to nearly $500 million, a fourfold increase, reflecting strong market confidence in its product. Image note: Image generated by AI, image rights reserved.

Kortix-AI has officially launched Suna, an open-source general-purpose AI agent platform positioned as an open-source alternative to the popular AI tool Manus. According to AIbase, Suna integrates browser automation, file management, web scraping, enhanced search, command-line execution, website deployment, and API integration, enabling the automation of complex tasks through natural language conversations. The project is now live on GitHub and has quickly become a focal point for AI developers and automation enthusiasts due to its powerful feature set and open-source nature.

On March 12th, the tech world was once again ignited by the Chinese AI newcomer, Manus. According to ManusAI, since the product's launch on March 6th, within just 7 days, 2 million people globally have joined the waitlist. This world's first general-purpose AI Agent, created by a Chinese team of 90s-born individuals led by Monica, has sparked heated discussions with its powerful capabilities surpassing traditional AI assistants. Manus not only provides suggestions or answers questions but also delivers complete task results directly, earning it the title of the perfect combination of mind and hand.

AI agent tool Manus announced a strategic partnership with Alibaba's Tongyi Qianwen to launch a Chinese version. This collaboration will leverage Tongyi Qianwen's open-source model and utilize domestic computing platforms to implement Manus' full functionality, aiming to provide Chinese users with a more convenient and efficient AI application experience. Manus is a project incubated by the startup Monica.im, founded in July 2023, which focuses on developing consumer-oriented AI tools and browser extensions. The founding team...

Manus, an AI Agent product from Chinese startup Monica, has recently gained traction on X. Its founder, Ji Yichao, today shared further technical details via social media. According to Ji, Manus is built upon Alibaba's Qwen large language model and leverages various fine-tuned models to achieve its unique functionalities. This revelation has sparked industry discussion regarding Manus's technological origins and further ignited global AI community interest in its potential.

The general-purpose AI agent product Manus, launched recently, has attracted a large number of users vying for invitation codes. While its performance has garnered much attention, there's also significant interest in the technology behind Manus. Besides numerous teams attempting to replicate Manus, a user named Jian recently cracked the Manus system. By simply requesting Manus to output the contents of the directory '/opt/.manus/', they successfully obtained some sensitive information and operational data.

Manus AI, a general-purpose AI agent developed by Chinese startup Monica, has resumed normal operations after a brief social media crisis. Positioned as the world's first autonomous AI agent, the product can handle complex real-world tasks such as creating websites, analyzing stock market trends, and planning travel itineraries. Its performance in early 2025 was lauded by the media as a pride of Chinese AI, ranking alongside models like DeepSeek. On March 7th, the official Manus AI X account was suddenly suspended; the initial reason points to mentions from third parties.

Recently, a Chinese AI agent platform called Manus has garnered significant attention online. Since its preview launch last week, the platform has rapidly attracted a large user base, with Hugging Face's Head of Product calling it "the most impressive AI tool I've ever seen". Meanwhile, AI policy researcher Dean Ball described Manus as "the most sophisticated computer AI". Manus's official Discord server amassed...

Recently, Manus AI partner Zhang Tao released a statement on the platform, sharing the team's unexpected adventure over the past 17 hours. Zhang Tao stated that the team initially only hoped to share their interim achievements in exploring the agent product form, so server resources were prepared according to the industry standard for releasing a demo. They did not anticipate such an overwhelming response.

Today at noon, Manus, the world's first general-purpose AI agent, officially joined Weibo, sparking enthusiastic attention and discussion among netizens. According to Weibo's AI official account, Manus is not just a smart assistant, but a "hands-on" super colleague capable of handling various tasks with a single instruction. From resume screening and travel planning to data analysis, PPT creation, and even coding and deploying web games, Manus is poised to become an efficiency powerhouse for office workers, students, and entrepreneurs alike.