Manus probably isn’t China’s second ‘DeepSeek moment’

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An “agent” AI platform Manus, which was launched last week, was producing more hype than a Taylor Swift concert.

Product in the face of hugs Is called Manus “The most impressive AI equipment I’ve tried.” AI policy researcher Dean Ball Described Manus as “the most sophisticated computer using AI”. The Official Discord Server In just a few days for Manus, more than 138,000 members have increased and codes for Manus are being invited Report The Chinese Reseller App sells thousands of dollars in Gianiyu.

It is not clear, however, that the hype is equitable.

Manus was not fully developed from scratch. According to the report On social media, the platform is to draft research reports using the combination of anthropic clod and Alibaba Queen and perform research reports such as financial filing analysis.

Still on its website, Monica – Chinese Startup behind Manus – gives a few wild examples of what can achieve the platform, supposedly From buying real estate to programming video gamesThe

A Viral video In X -in, Yaaco “Pick” G, a research leadership for Manus, indicated that the platform was higher than the agent tools like Openai Deep research And OperatorThe The GIIA has claimed that the General AI surpasses deep research on a popular Benchmark for AI assistants, which browse the web, using software and investigating the work skills to perform the job.

“[Manus] In the video, G says, not just another chattabot or action flow. “This is a complete autonomous agent that reduces the gap between ideas and executions […] We see it as a later example of human-me-collaboration. “

However, some primary users have said that Manus is not Panasia.

Alexander Doria, co-founder of AI Startup Plias, In a post at x says in a post He was confronted with error message and endless loop while testing Manus. Other x user Mentioned that Manus makes mistakes in truthful questions And Does not consistently quote its work – and Often missed information that is available onlineThe

My own experience with Manus was not incredibly positive.

I asked the platform to handle it like a nice straight request to me: Order a fried chicken sandwich from the top fast food joints in my delivery ranges. About ten minutes later, Manus crashed. In the second attempt, it found a menu item that met my criteria, but Manus could not complete the ordering process – or even provided a checkout link.

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The experience of trying to order fried chicken sandwiches with Manus is an experience of despair.Figure Credit:Human

When I asked to book a flight from NYC to Japan, Manus jumped the same way. I thought that didn’t leave too much space for ambiguity (such as “Find a business-class flight, prior to the price and flexible dates”), the best manuras that could do the best manuras were served on several airline websites and airfare search engines, which were broken.

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Manus couldn’t book the flight to Tokyo yet for you.Figure Credit:Human

The next few tasks could be interesting, hopefully I asked Manus to save a table for a restaurant at a walk away. It failed a few minutes later. Then I asked the platform to create a Naruto-inspired fight game. It goes wrong within half an hour, which I decided to throw a towel.

We reached Monika for comments and if we listen back to this post will update.

So if Manusis is becoming less than his technical promises, why did it get upset? A few factors contributed, such as exclusively created by a InvitationThe

The Chinese media was fast to tout Manus as AI Breakthrough; Publication QQue New News says it “Pride of domestic products.” Meanwhile, on social media, AI influencers have spread misinformation about Manus’ power. Ay Video A desktop program has shown by taking action throughout multiple smartphone applications, of course Manus. G confirmed The video was not actually a demo in Manus.

Another Dominant AII Account X -on -Mansu and Chinese AI organization wanted to draw comparisons Dipsc – Comparation is not necessarily essentially original. Monica did not develop in-house models opposite DEPSEC. And when DEPSEC’s many technologies are publicly available, Monica does not have – At least not yet quiteThe

To be equitable to Monika, Manus is on the primary access. The company has claimed that it is working to scale the computer’s power and solve problems as their report. However, as the platform currently exists, the hype seems to be a running event before the Manus technical innovation.

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