⚡️ Baozi, have you been overwhelmed by Manus these days? Following DeepSeek, Manus, who will work independently, has become popular overnight.

In the early hours of March 6, 2025, Manus ignited the enthusiasm of the tech community. Everyone stayed up all night just to grab an invitation code. This is not an ordinary chatbot, but an intelligent being known as the world's first universal AI Agent.

The name Manus comes from the Latin word for hand, implying that knowledge should not only stay in the mind, but also be able to be executed by hand. Isn't this the core of the evolution of Agent and AI Bot?

Like traditional AI like ChatGPT, which can only talk and not act, Manus is a hands-on assistant. You throw a bunch of messy resumes at it, and it can unpack and analyze them on its own, and finally give you a ranking table; if you say you want to buy a house in New York, it will look up community safety, school quality, and even calculate the budget, and give you a detailed report. It's really terrifying, what else can AI not do.

Manus's ace in the hole is its multi-agent architecture that closely mimics human thinking. It incorporates a Multiple Agent system, acting like a miniature team: planning agents break down tasks, executing agents get hands-on work done, verifying agents ensure quality control, running independently in virtual machines and sandboxes, collaborating via API or message queues. Each agent functions like a human—understanding instructions, breaking down steps, and utilizing tools, resulting in a surge in efficiency for complex tasks and a dramatic decrease in response time. Using it is like being a miniaturized department head, rather than bossing around interns.

In the B2B scenario, Manus relies on web crawlers, code writing, and execution capabilities to extract potential suppliers from a massive amount of information on the Internet, filtering and matching them based on product quality, price, delivery capabilities, and other dimensions. It really can remember your preferences.

In 2015, he founded Nightingale Technology, launched Yi Ban Assistant and Wei Ban Assistant, serving over 2 million B-end users, and received investments from Tencent, ZhenFund, and others.

Later, he led the team to create Monica - an All-in-One AI assistant, integrating mainstream large models such as Claude 3.5, DeepSeek, and entering the overseas market with a browser plugin. The number of users exceeded tens of millions, becoming a leading product in the AI plugin field.

In 2022, Xiao Hong established the Manus team and launched the Chinese version of Monica in February this year. Based on the DeepSeek R1 and V3 models, it supports deep reasoning, memory functions, and real-time search, and is freely open for internal testing. In the GAIA benchmark test, Manus outperformed OpenAI's models of the same level, achieving the SOTA result, showcasing China's hardcore AI capabilities.

2025 is predicted to be the first year of AI Agent, and the appearance of Manus is also a strong signal. Agent is a new form of AI, filling the gap between concept and execution. AI is no longer just talk, but a practical tool.