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

Manus AI, an artificial intelligence (AI) agent developed by the AI agency Monica, was launched final week. China based mostly ‘The Butterfly Impact’ is Monica’s father or mother firm, and known as Manus a common AI agent that may deal with a variety 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 second.” Notably, the system operates utilizing a number of giant language fashions (LLMs).

Manus AI Agent Launched

Details about the Manus AI agent is out there on its devoted website. The corporate calls it a “common AI agent” that “excels at varied duties in work and life.” Whereas there are a number of AI brokers out there available in the market, together with the likes of OpenAI’s Operator, Google’s Gemini Deep Analysis, and Salesforce’s Agentforce, these are largely restricted to domain-specific duties.

As a substitute, the corporate claims that Manus can full duties resembling planning a visit, analysing shares and portfolios, conducting analysis, and even buying merchandise on-line. It comes outfitted with a sandboxed pc surroundings the place it may well carry out duties and the processing happens asynchronously within the cloud. Within 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.

Primarily based on inside testing, the AI agency additionally highlighted that Manus outperforms OpenAI’s DeepResearch software on the Normal AI Assistant (GAIA) benchmark. Presently, the AI agent is just out there to some testers, and it’s unclear when the platform shall be accessible to the overall 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. Nevertheless, 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 aptitude claims made by Monica.

A few of those that have acquired 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 spectacular AI software I’ve ever tried” in a post on X (previously generally known as Twitter). Nevertheless, Alexander Doria, the Co-Founding father of the AI startup Pleias, claimed to have encountered errors regularly whereas testing the mannequin.