I tested Manus, China's 'fully autonomous' AI agent. It's promising — but not ready to go solo yet.
Manus structured tasks well but stumbled in execution, hallucinating data and creating clunky designs.
DeepSeek vs Manus AI: How do these two Chinese AI chatbots compare in responses, privacy, search, and more
Weeks after Chinese AI startup DeepSeek caused a whirlwind with its DeepSeek-R1 model, a powerful new AI tool, Manus AI, is ...
MIT Technology Review2d
Everyone in AI is talking about Manus. We put it to the test.
The new general AI agent from China had some system crashes and server overload—but it’s highly intuitive and shows real ...
DIGITIMES1d
Manus vs. DeepSeek: disruptive AI breakthrough or just smoke and mirrors?
China's latest AI sensation, Manus, is being marketed as the world's first general-purpose AI agent. Overnight, it became a ...
China's Manus AI 'agent' could be our 1st glimpse at artificial general intelligence
Chinese startup Butterfly Effect has unveiled what it claims is the first general AI agent capable of acting autonomously.
How to join Manus — the new AI assistant everyone is talking about
Unlike ChatGPT, Claude, and other single-model systems, Manus claims to be the "world's first general AI agent" by using ...
China launches 'Manus AI,' an assistant tool claimed to surpass Deepseek in performance
DeepSeek AI, launched by China, was a huge hit. Another AI tool called 'Manus' has been introduced from China. This tool is ...
The Economist1d
With Manus, AI experimentation has burst into the open
The existence of Manus makes this cautious approach harder to sustain, however. As the previously wide gap between big AI ...