The first batch of people to make money from Manus have emerged: invitation codes cost tens of thousands, and tutorials have been put on shelves before they are completed.

Blue Whale News, March 6 (Reporter Hao Yan)It is not an exaggeration to describe the development of the AI industry as new and changing day by day. While most people are still immersed in the shock brought by deepseek, new hot products have been born in the AI industry.

On March 6, the release of the world’s first universal AI Agent Manus attracted widespread attention in the technology industry. For a time, the Manus invitation code became a rare item in the technology circle, and the entire Internet sought invitation codes.

Just like countless previous tech explosions, in less than a day, many people have made money from it before the founder of Manus.

The bidding price of the second-hand platform invitation code is tens of thousands, and many orders have been sold

On March 6, a Blue Whale journalist inquired on the second-hand trading platform and found that many people have already sold Manus invitation codes on the platform and have already called for sky-high prices. As of press time, there are more than hundreds of product link sales invitation codes on the platform, among which the quotations range from tens of yuan to tens of thousands of yuan, and many merchants have transaction records. Among them, the link with a single invitation code priced at 50,000 yuan has now been removed.

Blue Whale News reporter asked many of the merchants, and the other party said that the invitation code came from a legitimate source, the price would not be lowered, and they could accept re-auction. One of the merchants who offered tens of thousands of yuan said.

In addition to invitation codes, people who want to rely on Manus to sell courses also appeared. Currently, many merchants sell Manus usage tutorials with a unit price of about 500 yuan. Since Manus has just been put into use, not only is the number of invitation codes limited, but even the official website has been offline. Therefore, some merchants told Blue Whale News that the detailed tutorials have not yet been completed, but the demand is not small.

In response, Manus AI partner Zhang Tao responded on social platforms that he would focus on building in the short term. He expressed his gratitude to everyone for their attention to Manus and would like to clarify: 1. We have never opened any channel for paying for invitation codes;2. We have never invested in any marketing budget;3. During the internal beta period, the system capacity is limited, and we will give priority to protecting the core experience of existing users and gradually releasing invitations in an orderly manner.

In addition, regarding the explosion of Manus, its team members also responded on social media platforms, saying that we completely underestimated everyone’s enthusiasm and that server resources were prepared completely at the level of a demo in the industry. rdquo;

The GPT moment to create an AI Agent? The founder is a serial entrepreneur born in the 1990s

The reason why Manus can detonate the entire network is largely related to its benchmarking against deepseek and Open AI in the current public opinion field.

Unlike previous AI applications that focused on information interaction, Manus can independently think, plan and perform complex tasks, directly deliver complete results, and demonstrate strong versatility and execution capabilities. In addition, according to the team, Manus achieved SOTA(State-of-the-Art) results in the GAIA benchmark, showing that its performance surpasses OpenAI’s large-scale model at the same level.

In view of this, many media call this the GPT moment of AI Agents.

After Manus exploded, the past history of the founder team also attracted much attention.

Tianyan APP shows that Monica’s affiliated company is Beijing Red Butterfly Technology Co., Ltd., which was established in July 2023. The legal representative is Feng Qionghua, which is wholly-owned by Butterfly Effect(Hong Kong)Limited, and Xiao Hong serves as CEO.

According to the official website of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Xiao Hong is a 2011 undergraduate alumnus of the School of Software of Huazhong University of Science and Technology and the head of the New Media Center (Huaxiaoke Team). In 2013, Xiao Hong and others successfully developed the Huake version of WeChat’s school floating bottle and WeChat wall features, which quickly became popular inside and outside the school. It is understood that within three days after the launch of the Drifting Bottle, the number of replies from the WeChat background reached 40,000.

Later, he founded Nightingale Technology in 2015. In October 2016, he participated in the gaming content product Hackathon. He won the championship with the public platform management tool One Companion Assistant and received angel investment from Zhenge Fund, but he believed that this was a product with relatively low ceilings. Continuously looking for new entrepreneurial opportunities.

After the wave of large models in 2022, Xiao Hong founded Monica to focus on overseas markets. This is an All-in-One AI assistant. By integrating mainstream large models (such as Claude3.5, DeepSeek, etc.), Monica provides chat, translation, copy processing and other functions.

The person who introduced Manus to the world on the official website is Ji Yichao, the company’s co-founder and chief scientist. He is a typical example of a teenage geek. He independently developed the iOS browser Mammoth in high school and won the MacWorld Special Award. Later, he founded Peak Labs, and received investment from Zhenge Fund and Sequoia Capital to develop a universal knowledge mapping system.

Whether Manus created the GPT moment of AI Agents is still uncertain, but what is certain is that a new era has arrived and mankind is already on the road to AGI.