The world's first General AI assistant, Manus! How bad can your "digital intern" be?

In the early hours of March 6, China's AI team Monica released a book calledManus.It's a universal AI smart body that detonates the technology circle in an instant. Some stayed up late at night to hold the invitation code, while others lamented that the “AGI prototype has emerged” and even that the invitation code on the used platform had been fired to tens of thousands. Is it true that AI, which is called "capable of carrying out its mission on its own like a human being," is subversive or marketing? Today, we'll show you exactly.

First, what is Manus? Your digital agent.

Manus comes from the Latin “Mens et Manus” (heads and hands), meaning “know one”. Unlike traditional AI assistants, it can answer not only questions, but also human beings.Planning, implementing and delivering complete resultsI don't know. For example:

Screening of curricula vitaeAutomatically depress files, page-by-page analysis of candidate information, generation of a ranking Excel table.
Real estate research• Dismantling tasks, searching for housing sources, calculation of the budget, final output containing detailed reports on community safety and school area analysis.
Analysis of equitiesCall API for data, cross-validation, generation of visual charts and even deployment of interactive web pages.

Its core competencies are:Multi-agent structurePlanning, implementation, validation of agency division of labour collaboration, simulation of human work processes, and support for cloud heretofore processing — even if you shut down the computer, it will be able to take the initiative to notify the mission.

Two, five of Manus' killers.

Free your hands.
Manus understands complex instructions and dismantles them into enforceable steps, calling on tools such as codes, browsers, API, etc. For example, users need only say “analyse Tesla stocks”, which automatically generates data reports and visualized charts without manual intervention.
Multidisciplinary coverage and flexibility
From the production of educational packages to matching B2B suppliers, from travel planning to financial analysis, Manus has demonstrated a 40+ application. For example, teaching video scripts for teachers that generate the kinetic theorem, or marketing optimization strategies for electric store owners.
Learning and memory skills
It records user preferences (e.g., the results of the preference tables) and automatically optimizes the process in the follow-up mission, like an “interns who can advance”.
Technically advanced.
In the GAIA benchmarking test (Assessing AI's ability to solve real-life problems), Manus outperformed OpenAI and others with SOTA (the most advanced).
It's cloudy, unequipped.
The mission is operated in an independent cloud virtual machine, independent of the performance of local equipment, and the user is free to view progress or suspend the mission.

iii. Who built Manus?

The Monica team behind Manus...Sho-hoon!Title (born 1992), whose entrepreneurial experience is legendary:

Early success• Development of the Micro-Credit Publicity Tool, “Associate Together”, which serves 2 million business users and is then sold to Licorne.
Shipping strategy(b) Avoiding competition from large domestic firms, targeting overseas markets and accumulating millions of users through the plugin ChatGPT for Google.
Product philosophyInstead of pursuing self-study models,Extreme integration of existing technologies(e.g. GPT-4, Claude 3) building user experience through engineering. The team believed that “the shell is indefatigable and the solution to the problem is the way to go”.

IV. CONCLUSION AND CHALLENGES: RETURN OR FREEDOM?

Despite Manus' feverishness, the voices of doubt also exist:

Capacity authenticityThe demonstration cases are mostly official and the experience has not yet been validated on a large scale.
Technical breakthrough limited.: Developers point out that their structures are like Anthony's Computer Use, relying on existing large models rather than on bottom-up innovations.
The market is in conflict.The Internet is all English, and the target users are suspected to be overseas, but domestic propaganda has emphasized “Chinese-made” and has led to a dispute over “marketing fragmentation”.

IV. Real-use scenes, with strong recommendation to click and see the process

Friends who do not have a manus authentication code can replay the entire generation by opening the link through the following link experience.
https://manus.im/share/Aa0M0gvOybi9cRwDK0RNx?replay=1 Write a novel on a custom theme. https://manus.im/share/hRGARE7EBqtDhHBSLP7?replay=1 Financial valuation model construction https://manus.im/share/Sc5a78DH57lQ5aYJbVAVZp?replay=1 Zelinski's White House Interactive Game https://manus.im/share/cmripYJybxNiLSkWn6PJn?replay=1 Google CEO simulator.

Test links after the last two games have been generated:

Zelinski's White House interactive game:https://bedmvh.manus.space/

Google CEO simulator:https://wqvmzimt.manus.space/

Conclusions
The birth of Manus marked a leap from a “dialogue tool” to an “implementing partner”. Although its interoperability still needs to be validated, it undoubtedly provides a new paradigm for the landing of AI Agent. As the founder Xiao Hong quotes Shakespeare:It's a wave.I'm sorry.

Practical recommendations

How to experience Manus:
- The official network (manus.im) submits internal testing applications and waits patiently for invitations.
- Vigilance against the high prices of second-hand platforms and official statements that no payment channels are open.
Usage techniques:
- Identify mission requirements (e.g. “generation of 10 pages of millimetres SU7 PPT”) to avoid ambiguity.
- Combining manual audit results, especially in professional areas (e.g. stock analysis).

Interactive questions

What do you want to do with Manus?"Travel planning? Every week?
If AI's assistant was popular, would you worry about unemployment? Why?