Stephanie Arnett/MIT Technology Review Since the general AI agent Manus was launched last week, it has spread online like wildfire. And not just in China, where it was developed by the Wuhan-based startup Butterfly Effect. It’s made its way into the global conversation, with influential voices in tech, including Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey and Hugging Face product lead Victor Mustar, praising its performance. Some have even dubbed it “the second DeepSeek ,” comparing it to the earlier AI model that took the industry by surprise for its unexpected capabilities as well as its origin. Manus claims to be the world’s first general AI agent, using multiple AI models (such as Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet and fine-tuned versions of Alibaba’s open-source Qwen) and various independently operating agents to act autonomously […]
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