Meta Acquires Chinese-Founded AI Startup Manus to Accelerate Autonomous Agents in Its Products

Overview

• Meta announced the purchase on Monday, with financial terms undisclosed, while Reuters cited sources valuing Manus at $2 billion to $3 billion.
• Meta described Manus as having built one of the leading general‑purpose autonomous agents capable of independently handling market research, coding and data analysis.
• Manus reported processing more than 147 trillion tokens and creating over 80 million virtual computers for millions of users, figures Meta highlighted in its announcement.
• The startup will keep operating from Singapore with its existing subscription app and site, and its staff will join Meta to bring general‑purpose agents to consumer and enterprise offerings.
• Recent coverage portrays Manus AI as a multiagent system that runs many tasks in parallel with multimodal outputs, while noting reliability issues, limited access and unresolved privacy and geopolitical questions that lack independent verification.