China continues to captivate the global tech community with remarkable advancements in artificial intelligence. Recently, a groundbreaking Chinese AI model, named Manus, has taken center stage, following the success of DeepSeek, another Chinese AI innovation.
According to reports, Manus was unveiled on March 6 by Chinese AI startup Monica, which was founded by a team of former Google and Tencent experts and is led by Xiao Hong. Described as more than just a chatbot, Manus is positioned as a general AI agent designed to bridge the gap between thought and action.
The company’s website boldly states, “Manus is a general AI agent that bridges minds and actions: it doesn’t just think, it delivers results. Manus excels at various tasks in work and life, getting everything done while you rest.”
The buzz kicked into high gear when Peak Ji Yichao, a 33-year-old tech enthusiast from China, and a co-founder of Manus, shared a video about the AI Model to his X post (formerly known as Twitter). The 4-minute video highlights the capabilities of the AI model. The developer team has highlighted the model’s strength to think, plan, and also stated that the model can complete the task independently by delivering the complete results.
The video offers a front-row seat to Manus’s workflow: interacting with its environment, browsing websites, gathering data, and displaying its process in real time. It shows that the AI can generate a travel program, bring an in-depth stock analysis, and assist teachers by creating interactive school circulars. The video also showed how AI agents interact with the environment, gather information, browse websites, perform tasks, and display their workflows in real time.
Beyond creative tasks the demo reveals its knack for rapidly reviewing resumes and summarizing them with human-like insight. Monica boldly claims Manus outshines OpenAI’s Deep Research on the GAIA benchmark.
The excitement isn’t without hurdles. Manus is currently an invite-only preview, with server hiccups and reported bugs like incomplete tasks tempering early feedback. No official public release date has been set.