A stampede of contenders and copycats has followed the launch of the general AI agent, but China’s internet restrictions have ...

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causing some to call it China's "Sputnik moment." Now, Manus is stepping into the spotlight with claims of full autonomy — ...

Manus, an “agentic” AI platform that launched in preview last week, is generating more hype than a Taylor Swift concert. Manus wasn’t developed entirely from scratch. According to reports on ...

BEIJING, March 11 (Reuters) - China's Manus AI announced on Tuesday a strategic partnership with the team behind tech giant Alibaba's Qwen AI models, a move that could bolster the artificial ...

But Manus AI, the latest AI from China, is far from novel. Unlike DeepSeek, which introduced meaningful advancements, Manus offers nothing revolutionary. It claims autonomy, but in reality ...

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A powerful new AI tool Manus is making waves in China, fuelling hopes that it could replicate the success of DeepSeek, which earlier this year rattled the global tech industry with its state-of ...

Manus team. Credit: Optics Valley of China/Facebook Xiao previously built WeChat-based applications that were acquired by larger companies and later launched Monica.ai, an AI assistant available ...

Manus unveiled a text-to-video generation feature, entering a competitive segment populated by rivals from OpenAI to China’s Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Tencent Holdings Ltd.

Its creators say Manus can perform tasks, like building a website from scratch, with minimal oversight. Some are calling it China's next DeepSeek moment, but others are calling it overhyped.