Facebook’s parent company Meta has signed a deal to acquire Manus, a Chinese AI agent with advanced artificial intelligence. Manus was developed by a company that was founded in China but is now headquartered in Singapore. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.
According to experts, AI agents have the potential to go far beyond traditional chatbots like ChatGPT because they can automate complex tasks on behalf of users. For example, Manus can automatically perform tasks such as sorting and summarizing job applications, or creating a website based on stock market analysis.
agent to billions of users worldwide and create business opportunities through Meta’s various products.”
“The era of AI that doesn’t just talk, but acts, creates, and delivers results has begun,” Xiao Hong, chief executive of Butterfly Effect, the startup that created Manus, said on social media platform X (formerly Twitter). “And now, together with Meta, we will be able to build it on a scale we never imagined.”
investments in the field of artificial intelligence, under which billions of dollars of projects, new hires and large data centers are being built.
On the other hand, Bloomberg Intelligence analysts say that this purchase is made to increase Meta’s AI agent task capabilities, and the deal could be worth more than $2 billion.
