Overview

• 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.