{"id":255657,"date":"2025-03-10T08:29:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T08:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/ai-agent-manus-might-be-chinas-second-deepseek-moment\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T08:29:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T08:29:26","slug":"ai-agent-manus-might-be-chinas-second-deepseek-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/ai-agent-manus-might-be-chinas-second-deepseek-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Agent Manus Might Be China\u2019s Second DeepSeek Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.gadgets360cdn.com\/large\/manus_gaia_benchmark_1741590203868.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"AI Agent Manus Might Be China\u2019s Second DeepSeek Moment\" title=\"AI Agent Manus Might Be China\u2019s Second DeepSeek Moment\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"center_content_div\">\n<div class=\"content_text row description\">\n<p>Manus AI, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgets360.com\/tags\/artificial-intelligence\">artificial intelligence<\/a> (AI) agent developed by the AI firm Monica, was introduced last week. China based &#8216;The Butterfly Effect&#8217; is Monica&#8217;s parent company, and called Manus a general AI agent that can handle a wide range of tasks of high complexity. After a video showcasing the capabilities of the AI agent was shared on social media platforms, Manus was given the accolade of \u201cChina&#8217;s second DeepSeek moment.\u201d Notably, the system operates using multiple large language models (LLMs).<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"manus-ai-agent-introduced\">Manus AI Agent Introduced<\/h2>\n<p>Information about the Manus AI agent is available on its dedicated <a href=\"https:\/\/manus.im\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">website<\/a>. The company calls it a \u201cgeneral AI agent\u201d that \u201cexcels at various tasks in work and life.\u201d While there are several AI agents available in the market, including the likes of OpenAI&#8217;s Operator, Google&#8217;s Gemini Deep Research, and Salesforce&#8217;s Agentforce, these are largely limited to domain-specific tasks.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the company claims that Manus can complete tasks such as planning a trip, analysing stocks and portfolios, conducting research, and even purchasing products online. It comes equipped with a sandboxed computer environment where it can perform tasks and the processing occurs asynchronously in the cloud. In the video, Yichao \u201cPeak\u201d Ji, a research lead working on Manus highlighted that the AI agent is powered by several AI models, but did not disclose any details about them.<\/p>\n<p>Based on internal testing, the AI firm also highlighted that Manus outperforms OpenAI&#8217;s DeepResearch tool on the General AI Assistant (GAIA) benchmark. Currently, the AI agent is only available to some testers, and it is unclear when the platform will be accessible to the general population.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption\">Manus AI benchmark<br \/><span class=\"ins_instory_span_credit\">Photo Credit: Manus<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The research lead also stated in the video that the company will soon share more details about the AI models to contribute to the open-source community. However, no details about the AI agent itself are available or have been announced to be made public. This has raised some concerns over the capability claims made by Monica.<\/p>\n<p>Some of those who have received early access to Manus have shared contradictory opinions about the AI agent. Victor Mustar, the Head of Product at Hugging Face called it the \u201cmost impressive AI tool I&#8217;ve ever tried\u201d in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/victormustar\/status\/1898505307896131708\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">post<\/a> on X (formerly known as Twitter). 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