Tencent showcases a dozen AI agents at China’s biggest AI event, intensifying the competition in a heated market.

Some AI experts have said Manus AI is "China’s second DeepSeek moment," according to Rowan Cheung, founder of The Rundown AI newsletter, in a LinkedIn post, who later tested the platform.

Butterfly Effect, the Chinese startup behind Manus AI, raised $75 million in a funding round led by U.S. venture capital firm Benchmark, valuing the agentic AI provider at nearly $500M, Bloomberg ...

These scenarios drive home a key strategic insight: in isolation, both the intensification of US-China rivalry and the explosion of AI breakthroughs are world-changing. Together, their simultaneity ...

Unfortunately, my initial hands-on testing with corrupted datasets reveals a fundamental enterprise problem: impressive capabilities paired with insufficient transparency about data transformations.

BI got early access to Manus, which claims to be the world's first fully autonomous AI agent. It structured tasks well but stumbled in execution — hallucinating data and creating clunky designs.

The start-up has relocated to Singapore with an eye on overseas clients and funding amid heightened US-China tensions.

How was Manus created? Following its launch, some early users suggested Manus wasn't built from scratch and that it's more of an AI wrapper running on other models like Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

But Manus AI has gained attention because of its claims about its strong benchmark performance, which shows it beat OpenAI’s o3-powered Deep Research agent, according to a graph posted on the official ...

Some AI experts have said Manus AI is "China’s second DeepSeek moment," according to Rowan Cheung, founder of The Rundown AI newsletter, in a LinkedIn post, who later tested the platform.