Chinese Firm Introduces Manus AI, a General Purpose AI Agent Said to Outperform OpenAI’s DeepResearch

Manus AI, a man-made intelligence (AI) agent developed by the AI agency Monica, was launched final week. China based mostly ‘The Butterfly Effect’ is Monica’s father or mother firm, and known as Manus a common AI agent that may deal with a wide selection of duties of excessive complexity. After a video showcasing the capabilities of the AI agent was shared on social media platforms, Manus was given the accolade of “China’s second DeepSeek moment.” Notably, the system operates utilizing a number of massive language fashions (LLMs).

Manus AI Agent Introduced

Information in regards to the Manus AI agent is obtainable on its devoted web site. The firm calls it a “general AI agent” that “excels at various tasks in work and life.” While there are a number of AI brokers accessible available in the market, together with the likes of OpenAI’s Operator, Google’s Gemini Deep Research, and Salesforce’s Agentforce, these are largely restricted to domain-specific duties.

Instead, the corporate claims that Manus can full duties akin to planning a journey, analysing shares and portfolios, conducting analysis, and even buying merchandise on-line. It comes geared up with a sandboxed laptop setting the place it will possibly carry out duties and the processing happens asynchronously within the cloud. In the video, Yichao “Peak” Ji, a analysis lead engaged on Manus highlighted that the AI agent is powered by a number of AI fashions, however didn’t disclose any particulars about them.

Based on inner testing, the AI agency additionally highlighted that Manus outperforms OpenAI’s DeepResearch device on the General AI Assistant (GAIA) benchmark. Currently, the AI agent is barely accessible to some testers, and it’s unclear when the platform shall be accessible to the final inhabitants.

Manus AI benchmark
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The analysis lead additionally acknowledged within the video that the corporate will quickly share extra particulars in regards to the AI fashions to contribute to the open-source neighborhood. However, no particulars in regards to the AI agent itself can be found or have been introduced to be made public. This has raised some considerations over the potential claims made by Monica.

Some of those that have obtained early entry to Manus have shared contradictory opinions in regards to the AI agent. Victor Mustar, the Head of Product at Hugging Face known as it the “most impressive AI tool I’ve ever tried” in a publish on X (previously often known as Twitter). However, Alexander Doria, the Co-Founder of the AI startup Pleias, claimed to have encountered errors on a common foundation whereas testing the mannequin.