The striking feature of Manus, as stated on the website, is that it can outperform OpenAI’s DeepResearch based on the GAIA standard
Chinese Startup, Monica, founded by Xiao Hong, launched its artificial intelligence (AI) agent named Manus. According to the company’s website, the AI agent can solve complex problems both at work and life. This development comes just days after Chinese AI startup DeepSeek garnered worldwide attention and sparked conversation around its competition with Sam Altman’s ChatGPT.
“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 Chinese AI Startup Monica said on its website.
A nearly four-minute video posted on the company’s website showed Manus’s ability to screen candidates for a reinforcement learning engineer position by quickly going through the resumes and creating a brief of the information in them in a way similar to that done by human beings. The video was shared on the social media platform X on Wednesday night by Peak Ji Yichao, a 33-year-old Chinese tech enthusiast. The video soon gained recognition globally and received nearly 200,000 views by Thursday noon.
The video also highlighted its abilities, including thinking, planning and executing tasks on its own and delivering complete results. It can prepare an itinerary for a trip to Japan, offer an in-depth analysis of stocks, can help teachers by coming up with an interactive school circular. The demo video also showed that AI agents can interact with its environment, collect information, browse through websites and gather data, execute tasks, and showcase its workflow in real time. One demo video depicted its ability to control 50 different screens simultaneously.
The striking feature of Manus, as stated on the website is that it can outperform OpenAI’s DeepResearch based on the GAIA standard. It reportedly showed the rapidly changing AI-driven automation in the world.