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Re: ManusAI Joins Meta

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Post by sigmar »

syspec wrote: post #8

> This announcement is more than just a headline—it's validation of our pioneering work with General AI Agents. Anyone else thought this was satire when they read that as the second line in the announcement? I literally laughed, then clicked the top left logo, to check out the homepage and see if this `ManuAI` was a real website. --- You would think that they would know better to at least edit that out. It's not just…

Perhaps "our PR team is a prompt" is what they mean to convey? Or "let's make this obviously AI so more people comment pointing that out" is their social media strategy?

Re: ManusAI Joins Meta

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Post by shon »

Bummer. Manus was the best actual agent for my money. I literally have it working for me right now so I can goof off on HN… no joke.

Re: ManusAI Joins Meta

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Post by bentcorner »

yanslookup wrote: post #18
sokka_h2otribe wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Op is saying it sounds like it was written like an LLM

ok... it's an AI company, It'd be odd if it weren't written by AI, no?

I'm all for dogfooding but if you work for a bicycle company it shouldn't mean you can't drive to work. The right tool for the right job.

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Post by visioninmyblood »

Meta was lacking behind on the agents space. This is a good capture but they are making crazy good offers but not turning them into killer products so far. The AI agents space is picking up in 20206. Next they will hire voice agents like ElevenLabs and Cartesia, visual Agents like VLM Run or Landing AI and then web browsing agents.

Re: ManusAI Joins Meta

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Post by mrcwinn »

Totally forgot Manus existed. It’s funny they’re so eager to tell us this acquisition means they are a pioneer. Imagine pioneering agentic LLM usage - surely you’d be buying Meta!

Re: ManusAI Joins Meta

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Post by tacker2000 »

howmayiannoyyou wrote: post #15

Manus was pretty damn good at delivering impressive results well before other providers. I stopped using it because I was concerned about data privacy and and whatever extent one particular foreign country might (or might not) have hooks into Manus. Now that Meta has purchased them I know I'm safe ((sarcasm)). I have many questions: - Will Meta fuck this up as they seem (in my opinion) to do with most of the acquisit…

What was the advantage of manus vs other providers?

Re: ManusAI Joins Meta

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Post by Insanity »

visioninmyblood wrote: post #34

Meta was lacking behind on the agents space. This is a good capture but they are making crazy good offers but not turning them into killer products so far. The AI agents space is picking up in 20206. Next they will hire voice agents like ElevenLabs and Cartesia, visual Agents like VLM Run or Landing AI and then web browsing agents.

I mean that gives us another ~18k years to adapt so we’ll be fine :)

I wonder what Meta their play would actually be though. Do they have any successful GenAI products yet? I don’t use their social media apps so not sure how integrated that is these days.

Edit: commercial products, not Ollama*

Re: ManusAI Joins Meta

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Post by dm8 »

Meta needed consumer product along with foundational model. Manus gives them consumer product now. Pure speculation - must be 5B+ acquisition given their revenue run rate.

It seems M&A door is wide open for 2026.

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