AI Agent Manus May Be China’s Second DeepSeek Second

Manus AI, an synthetic intelligence (AI) agent developed by the AI agency Monica, was launched final week. China based mostly ‘The Butterfly Impact’ is Monica’s mother or father firm, and referred to as Manus a normal 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 massive language fashions (LLMs).

Manus AI Agent Launched

Details about the Manus AI agent is out there on its devoted web site. The corporate calls it a “normal AI agent” that “excels at varied duties in work and life.” Whereas there are a number of AI brokers accessible out there, 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 corresponding to planning a visit, analysing shares and portfolios, conducting analysis, and even buying merchandise on-line. It comes geared up with a sandboxed laptop surroundings the place it could possibly 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 device on the Common AI Assistant (GAIA) benchmark. At present, the AI agent is just accessible to some testers, and it’s unclear when the platform will likely 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 concerning the AI fashions to contribute to the open-source neighborhood. Nevertheless, no particulars concerning 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 obtained early entry to Manus have shared contradictory opinions concerning the AI agent. Victor Mustar, the Head of Product at Hugging Face referred to as it the “most spectacular AI device I’ve ever tried” in a put up on X (previously generally known as Twitter). Nevertheless, Alexander Doria, the Co-Founding father of the AI startup Pleias, claimed to have encountered errors frequently whereas testing the mannequin.