GuShiio.com Article source: AI Frontline
Image source: Generated by AI
Following DeepSeek, another AI product exploded in the technology circle last night.
A domestic team named Manus has released an AI Agent product. On Manus’s official website, we introduce it as follows: Manus is a universal AI Agent that connects thoughts and actions: it not only thinks, but also provides results. Manus is good at handling various tasks at work and life and can complete everything while you are resting.
The first universal AI Agent ignites the technology circle
It is said that this is the world’s first truly universal AI Agent.
The Manus team introduced that unlike traditional AI assistants, Manus is a truly autonomous AI Agent. Manus can not only provide suggestions or answers, but also directly deliver complete task results.
Manus Experience Application Link:https://manus.im/invitation
Specifically, what can it do?
In the 4-minute video display posted on the official website, the resume screening work was first shown. Officials sent Manus a compressed file containing 10 resumes, and Manus can screen resumes according to requirements like human HR.
Manus will unpack the file first, then browse each resume one by one, and extract key information. It supports asynchronous processing, so you can shut down the computer while the task is in progress, and it will notify you when it is complete. During this period, you can also send new instructions to Manus at any time. Then, continue to upload 5 resumes. After carefully analyzing all 15 resumes, Manus will provide ranking suggestions and attach candidate information and evaluation criteria for reference.
You can even ask Manus to generate spreadsheets based on users ‘habits.
Manus has knowledge and memory, so the next time it performs a similar task, it will deliver the results directly in a spreadsheet.
In the second demonstration video, the government asked Manus to select some suitable communities to live in, fully combining family income and the school needs of children at home. The location should be in New York, with safe conditions and low crime rates.
It can be seen that this requirement includes multiple small requirements. When dealing with such complex tasks, Manus can easily break them down into multiple steps and create a detailed to-do list.
- Search and read articles about the safest neighborhoods in New York.
- Study the situation in high schools in New York.
- Write a Python program to calculate a budget.
- Select suitable listings on real estate websites based on your budget.
- Integrate all information, write detailed reports and organize relevant data
In the third demonstration, Manus transformed into a professional stock analyst, shouldering the responsibility of analyzing the correlation of stock prices of Nvidia, Maiwire Technology and TSMC over the past three years.
It accesses authoritative financial data sources through an API interface, ensuring the accuracy and timeliness of the data. After the data was verified, Manus began writing code that would be used to conduct in-depth analysis of the three companies ‘share price movements and generate intuitive visual charts to reveal the correlation between them.
After completing in-depth analysis and visualization of Nvidia, Maiwire Technology and TSMC share price data, Manus demonstrated its versatility and ability to transform these analysis results into an interactive website. After obtaining explicit authorization from users, Manus deployed this insightful website to the cloud and made it accessible online. Users will get a unique link that can easily share with peers, friends or anyone interested in this analysis.
This process not only demonstrates Manus’s strong capabilities in data processing and analysis, but also reflects its professional insight in the financial field. Through Manus’s analysis, investors can more clearly understand the intrinsic connection between the stock price fluctuations of these three technology giants and make smarter investment decisions.
Being able to perform so many complex tasks, how does this Agent perform in benchmark tests?
According to official website information, Manus achieved new state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance at all three difficulty levels in the GAIA benchmark test, which evaluates the ability of general AI assistants to solve real-world problems.
According to reports, in addition to benchmarking, Manus also solves real-world problems on platforms such as Upwork and Fiverr, and has performed well in the Kaggle competition.
So, what is the origin of such an excellent product?
According to online public information, Xiao Hong, the founder behind Manus AI, is a 2015 alumnus of Huazhong University of Science and Technology majoring in software engineering.
Xiao Hong is a serial entrepreneur. Xiao Hong once appeared on a talk show, in which he provided the mentality of an entrepreneur in the waves: “The world is not linearly extrapolated, and you must become an important variable in the game.”
After graduation, in 2015, Xiao Hong founded Nightingale Technology and launched “One-Companion Assistant” and “Micro-Companion Assistant”, serving more than 2 million B-end users, and received investment from Tencent, Zhenge Fund and others.
Xiao Hong is also the initiator of another celebrity AI product, Monica.
Monica is an All-in-One AI assistant tool with product forms including browser plug-ins, PC/Mac and mobile platforms. Monica integrates the current mainstream model, allowing users to chat, translate, process copywriting, draw, etc. with Monica anytime and anywhere.
Currently, Monica plug-in has more than 1.5 million users worldwide.
Xiao Hong shared at a technical conference the reasons why they chose to start from the product form of browser plug-ins:
"Overseas, browser plug-ins are a relatively mainstream product form. For example, Grammarly earns hundreds of millions of dollars every year, and its browser plug-in user base may be 100 million.
Our core consideration is, how can AI, as a capability, adapt to various scenarios? Browser plug-ins happen to be one product form we have found that can do this well.
Big factories have developed many great AI capabilities, but many websites do not integrate these capabilities immediately. When users use browsers, they really want to use AI capabilities. At this time, browser plug-ins can bridge the gap in the experience of various websites from the user’s perspective.
There are also many successful cases of independent developers going to sea.
At the end of last year, just four days after ChatGPT was released, wang2 (net name), the person in charge of the instant store “Jishiduo”, released a plug-in “ChatGPT for Google”, integrating ChatGPT into the search engine and making it open source that day.
From having the idea, starting to write code, and finally going online, wong2 took less than 12 hours. More than two months after ChatGPT for Google was launched, the number of users exceeded 1 million, and it was immediately acquired by Monica and is currently valued at tens of millions of dollars.”
What do netizens think?
The release of Manus has attracted a lot of attention in the technology circle.
Manus is the first universal AI Agent and looks so cool.
More people were shocked by Manus and wanted an invitation code…
So, what do you think of this product? Welcome to speak freely in the comment area!
Reference link:
https://manus.im/
https://www.xiaoyuzhoufm.com/episode/6586ca30157cd445eebb399c
https://www.jingpt.com/article/b2f05f89-6a30-4b68-832b-e1557b6e5c8f
https://x.com/cellinlab/status/1896433479916916799
