Manus has kick-started an AI agent boom in China

In the case of Manos, competition moves quickly. For example, two of the most loud followers, Genspark and Flowith, excel, for example,

Genspark, led by former executives at Baidu Eric Jing and Kay Zhu, connects many small “super agents” through what he calls the multi -component claim. The agent can switch between many large language models, accepts both images and text, and performs tasks to create floors to put phone calls. While Manus relies heavily on the use of the browser, a popular open source product allows agents to play a web browser in a virtual window like humans, directly integrates with a wide range of tools and a application programming interface. It was launched in April, and the company says it has already has more than 5 million users and more than $ 36 million in annual revenue.

Flowith, a young team worked that caught the attention of the audience for the first time in April 2025 at a developed event hosted by the famous social media application Xiaohongshu, taking a different game. It is marketed as an “unlimited agent”, as it opens on an empty fabric where each question becomes a knot on a branch map. Users can retreat, take new branches, and the results of the store in “Personal Knowledge Gardens or Participation – a design that resembles the project management program (Think Ision) more than the typical chat interface. Every inquiry or task adopting a graphic fee similar Swalch like sending emails and collecting files. The founders want to be the “Marketbase” app, and aims to take advantage of the social aspect of artificial intelligence with the ambition to become “the only one for the creators of knowledge.”

What they also share with Manus is global ambition. Genspark and Flowith stated that their primary concentration is the international market.

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Strain companies such as Manus, Genspark and Flowith – founded by Chinese entrepreneurs – can be smoothly in the global technical scene and effectively competing abroad. Founders, investors and analysts Massachusetts Institute Technology Review Technology He spoke to the belief that Chinese companies are moving quickly, good implementation, and soon come with new products.

Money promotes clouds to launch abroad. Customers there are paying more, and there is a lot to wrap. “You can price in US dollars, and with the exchange rate that represents a seven times a double,” Manus Como Xiao Hong mocked Bodcast. “Even if we are only 10 % of power due to cultural differences abroad, we will remain in China more than China.”

But creating the same job in China is a challenge. The main American AI companies, including Openai and Anthropic from China, chose the mainland due to the geopolitical risks and challenges with organizational compliance. Their absence initially created a black market as users resorted to VPNS and third -party mirrors to reach tools such as Chatgpt and Claud. Since then, this void has been filled with a new wave of Chinese chat – Deepek, Doubao, Kimi – but the appetite of foreign models has not disappeared.

Manus, for example, used Claude Sonit Anthroproy – is widely considered the highest model of agents. Manus Costing Chang Tao has repeatedly praised Claude’s ability to reconcile the tools, remember contexts, and holding multiple conversations – all is very important to convert the Sthy to an effective executive assistant.