Chinese AI Agent Manus Gains Attention but Faces Questions on Scalability

The invite-only AI tool claims to handle complex tasks but struggles with limited access and transparency concerns.

Manus, a general-purpose AI agent developed in China, has rapidly gained popularity for its ability to perform complex, real-world tasks such as creating websites, analyzing stocks, and sourcing suppliers.
The AI agent claims to outperform OpenAI's Deep Research on the GAIA benchmark, a third-party measure of general AI performance.
Access to Manus is currently restricted to an invitation-only preview, with limited server capacity cited as the reason for its unavailability to broader audiences.
Critics have raised concerns about the lack of transparency regarding Manus' corporate structure, development team, and underlying AI models.
Manus' official social media account on X was suspended, reportedly due to unrelated cryptocurrency scams exploiting its surge in traffic, though the team is working to resolve the issue.