Manus (AI agent)

Manus
Developer(s)Monica (also known as
Butterfly Effect AI[1])
Initial releaseMarch 6, 2025 (2025-03-06)
Type
LicenseProprietary
Websitemanus.im

Manus (hand in Latin) is an autonomous artificial intelligence agent developed by startup company Monica, based in Singapore. The agent is designed to independently carry out complex online tasks without direct/continuous human guidance.

History

Manus was founded to create artificial intelligence agents capable of operating independently, based on large language models (LLM). The official launch of Manus was on March 6, 2025. VentureBeat described Manus as a major advance because it could autonomously handle complex tasks, including writing and deploying code.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Manus terms of service". Retrieved 3 June 2025.
  2. ^ Franzen, Carl (2025-03-10). "What you need to know about Manus, the new AI agentic system from China hailed as a second 'DeepSeek moment'". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2025-03-13.