The Chinese team launches the world's first general purpose AI agent Manus

(Beijing News) The Chinese team released what it called the world's first general artificial intelligence Agent product (AI Agent) Manus, saying that its performance exceeded that of the US AI giant Open AI at the same level of the large model, driving related concept stocks up by the daily limit.

According to reports from Science and Technology Board Daily, Securities Times and China Business News, Chinese startup Butterfly Effect launched an early preview version of Manus this week, claiming that it has the ability to handle various complex and changeable tasks. A large number of netizens rushed to apply for the trial, which once caused the registration page of the official website to crash.

Ji Yichao, co-founder and chief scientist of Butterfly Effect, said in a promotional video released on Manus' official website on Thursday (March 6) that Manus is different from traditional AI assistants in that it can not only provide suggestions, but also directly deliver complete results, and is a truly autonomous AI agent.

the video shows that Manus has achieved SOTA (state-of-art) in the AI benchmark test GAIA, and its performance exceeds OpenAI's large-scale model of the same level.

In the video demonstration case, Manus can screen resumes like a human, automatically decompress, read and generate ranking suggestions and candidate profiles.

Manus overnight red, led the A-share market AI agent concept stocks on Thursday collective surge, cool intelligence and many other stocks up limit.

On the same day, Qwen, a unit of Chinese tech giant Alibaba, announced the launch of its latest inference model, the QwQ 32B, saying its performance is comparable to the DeepSeek R1. Alibaba's Hong Kong shares opened higher Thursday, up 8.4 percent throughout the day.