Overview
- Meta confirmed it will keep selling Manus’s subscription service and integrate the agent across products including Meta AI on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
- There will be no continuing Chinese ownership after closing and Manus will cease services and operations in China, according to Meta.
- Financial terms were not disclosed, but multiple outlets report a price exceeding $2 billion and say existing investors have been bought out.
- Manus builds general-purpose autonomous agents for tasks like market research, coding and data analysis; the company claims more than $100 million in annualized revenue and large-scale usage, figures not independently verified.
- Founded in China and now based in Singapore, Manus has drawn political scrutiny in the U.S.; its staff will join Meta teams, and the technology has been piloted with partners such as Microsoft on Windows 11.