AI startup Manus, which has been quietly gaining momentum since its launch earlier this year, just rolled out a new Wide Research feature. Announced in a blog post on July 31, Wide Research brings ...

The implication seems to be that running all these agents in parallel is faster and will result in a better and more varied set of products.

Some AI experts have said Manus AI is "China’s second DeepSeek moment," according to Rowan Cheung, founder of The Rundown AI newsletter, in a LinkedIn post, who later tested the platform.

Chinese-founded startup Manus showed off a feature Thursday that speeds up research by assigning tasks to scores of AI agents working in tandem, touting its biggest update since its March debut.

Discover Manus' new Wide Research feature, enabling AI agents to work together for large-scale data analysis. Launching soon ...

BI got early access to Manus, which claims to be the world's first fully autonomous AI agent. It structured tasks well but stumbled in execution — hallucinating data and creating clunky designs.

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How was Manus created? Following its launch, some early users suggested Manus wasn't built from scratch and that it's more of an AI wrapper running on other models like Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

The technological singularity — the point at which artificial general intelligence surpasses human intelligence — is coming.

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However, granting autonomous AI agents like Manus the ability to perform independent actions raises serious concerns.” Agentic AI uses sophisticated reasoning and iterative planning to ...

But Manus AI has gained attention because of its claims about its strong benchmark performance, which shows it beat OpenAI’s o3-powered Deep Research agent, according to a graph posted on the official ...