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

MANUS, Ai “Agentic” platform that was launched in the inspection last week, generates a stir more than Taylor Swift.

The head of the Huging Face is called “The most impressive artificial intelligence tool I have ever tried.” Artificial Intelligence Policy Researcher, Dean Paul Manos, described the “most advanced computer with artificial intelligence.” Manus official Discord Servant grew to more than 138,000 members within a few days, and the call for MANUS codes sell thousands of dollars on the Chinese Reseler Xianyu application.

But it is not clear that the noise is justified.

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Manus has not been fully developed from scratch. According to social media reports, the platform uses a mixture of current and exact artificial intelligence models, including Claude and QWEN of anthropor, to perform tasks such as formulating research reports and financial deposits analysis.

However, on its website, MONICA – the Chinese starting start behind Manus – offers some land examples of what the platform can accomplish, from buying real estate to programming video games.

In a virus video on X, Yichao “Peak” Ji, a research in favor of Manus, indicates that the platform was superior to agents such as Openai’s Deep Research and its operator. Manus is outperforming the deep performance about a popular standard for artificial artificial intelligence aides called Gaia, as Ji, who benefits from the ability of artificial intelligence to carry out work by browsing the web, using programs, and more.

“[Manus] “It is not just a chatbot or another workflow.” It’s a completely independent factor that blocks the gap between pregnancy and implementation […] We see that the following model for cooperation between man and machine. “

But some of the first users say Manus is not the healing medicine.

Alexander Deria, co -founder of Ai Startup Pleias, said in a post on X that he had had error messages and endless episodes during the Manus test. Other X users indicated that Manus is making mistakes in realistic questions and does not constantly cite his work – and is often absent from information that can be easily found via the Internet.

Deep search has ended in less than 15 minutes. Unfortunately, Manus AI failed 50 minutes later in step 18/20! It was very well I was watching Manus as a result and it seemed excellent. However, running the same router for the second time is somewhat frustrating because it takes a long time! >

– derya unutmaz, MD (@modryatr_)

My own experience with Manus was not incredibly positive.

I asked the platform to deal with what seemed to me as if it was somewhat direct request: Ask a fried chicken sandwich from the fast food joint with my highest delivery range. After about ten minutes, Manus crashed. In the second attempt, I found a list of a list that fulfilled my criteria, but Manus was unable to complete the order – or even provide the exit link.

Manus took the same when I asked for this to reserve a trip from New York City to Japan. Looking at the instructions that I believed did not leave a big area of ​​mystery (for example, “Look for a business category, and set price priorities and flexible dates”), the best that he could do was to provide bonds on prices through many flights and search engines for flights such as Kayak, some of which were broken.

Hoping that the next few tasks will be magic, Manus told Booking a table for one in a restaurant close to. Fail after a few minutes. Then I asked the platform to build a fighting game inspired by Naruto. I made a mistake for half an hour, which is when I decided to throw the towel.

The sincere opinion after the experience of Manus AI over the past three days, here is good and bad.

good:
– The search it does on the Internet and the reports that it creates incredible.
– Its ability to run the scenes behind the scenes to carry out tasks is impressive.
– Its plans …

– Ashutoshshrivastava (@AII_for_sucss)

We have contacted Monica to comment and we will update this post if we hear again.

So, if the manuscripts lack their artistic promises, then why did they explode? Some factors, such as the uniqueness resulting from the scarcity of invitations.

The Chinese media was quick to promote Manos as Amnesty International. QQ QQ news published “Pride of local products”. Meanwhile, the influencers of artificial intelligence on social media are publishing misleading information about Manus’s capabilities. A large -scale video show showed the surface surface program, Manus on the outsatically, and taking action via multiple smartphone applications. Ji confirmed that the video was, in fact, a show of Manus.

Other artificial intelligence accounts on X sought to draw comparisons between Manus and the Chinese AI Deepseek – the comparisons are not necessarily rooted in reality. Monica did not develop internal models, unlike Deepseek. Although Deepseek made many of its techniques openly available, Monica was not – at least not yet preferred.

To be fair to Monica, Manos is early. The company claims that it is working to expand the range of computing capacity and repair problems when reporting. But with the existence of the platform currently, Manus appears to be a state of noise that progresses on technological innovation.