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Re: ManusAI Joins Meta

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Post by rohanm93 »

CamelCaseName wrote: post #125

I remember this company from the very beginning. I was very confused by them, but just the other day they sent an email saying they had hit $100MM ARR and $125MM run rate. Who is paying? No clue, must be big in China. I skipped going to their hackathon :')

Had an identical reaction to that $100m email. I decided to try it again with the browser extension. My verdict is it is better than ChatGPT Atlas for the agent mode, so I see use cases for it.

But I am still surprised it's at $100mm ARR. I had thought the company had died after their initial hyped launch and didn't see anyone talking about or using the company at all since then...and we play around with a lot of AI tools. I wonder who their customers are.

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Post by rokhayakebe »

noobermin wrote: post #154
rokhayakebe wrote: post #147

Sometimes I feel people are just jealous. If Meta is so ready to throw money why don't these people just build something and sell it to them for billions in 6 months. Join the winning side instead of complaining.

So I have a position that I don't think you'll like. I feel like making money is a means to a better life. Generally, we as a society should seek value creation that actually improves society and increases our productivity. If all you want to do is basically trick rich people out of their money, I don't think that is the world I want to live in. Yes this is an argument from morality fundamentally. I guess I want to l…

Do people really think Mark is simple? At his level a billion is not what you and I think it is. To most it's money to him it's just accounting with no negative financial impact whatsoever.

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Post by d0100 »

RyanShook wrote: post #71
chenzhekl wrote: post #63

This acquisition is a complete joke in China. From the very beginning, the company focused almost entirely on marketing. Then, after a few months, it fled China and relocated to Singapore. Now that it’s been acquired by Meta, you could say it has finally fulfilled its mission.

Definitely feels like a Claude wrapped with a lot of marketing. But you’d think there must be something more if Meta acquired them… Ok, I guess we’re in a bubble.

Manus is pretty "big" in the entrepreneur crowd here in Brazil

When it came out is was very good, and had much better results than ChatGPT

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Post by bigcat12345678 »

oefrha wrote: post #140
bigcat12345678 wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am Chinese and AI founder since 2023 This statement is completely baseless 1. Manus was never targeting Chinese domestic market, for obvious reasons 2. Manus was founded by successful founder with exit, backed toptier investors in China, they always have great reputation in the AI industry 3. Prior to manus' launch, the team developed Monica, as they are the frontier AI chat bot aggregator I really felt disgusted b…

Manus attempted to ride the wave of DeepSeek and hired an army of influencers inside and outside of China, especially inside, to hype it up as the second coming of DeepSeek, even though they didn’t target the Chinese domestic market (as you correctly pointed out). IIRC it quickly became a joke in about two weeks after it became obvious that they were a thin layer on top of Claude and all marketing. I don’t know how t…

I don't get it

Riding a wave of industry is literally the foundation of startups paradiam itself. Why it suddenly became a sin for a Chinese founded startup?

This is exactly the disgusting bias (even to the point of racism) I mostly pointed out.

It's like everyone automatically applied double standards to Chinese founded startup and not even admit that under such influence.

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Post by bigcat12345678 »

danieltanfh95 wrote: post #115
bigcat12345678 wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am Chinese and AI founder since 2023 This statement is completely baseless 1. Manus was never targeting Chinese domestic market, for obvious reasons 2. Manus was founded by successful founder with exit, backed toptier investors in China, they always have great reputation in the AI industry 3. Prior to manus' launch, the team developed Monica, as they are the frontier AI chat bot aggregator I really felt disgusted b…

Please. Manus had a live demo in Google Expo 2025 in Singapore and they blew it. It was such bad taste. Manus had 1 marketing gimmick with the agents. That is no longer anything novel.

A failed demo discounted a entire 100mm arr?

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Post by Synthetic7346 »

pishpash wrote: post #123
mlsu wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because our markets are no longer efficient at allocating capital. These companies are too large, they don't compete. They can buy a company for half a billion and write it off a few months later, at the whim of someone deranged by hype. How many businesses in competitive markets can afford to do that?

And the reason is all of you dumping cash into the market no matter what because John Bogle said so half a century ago.

I disagree - yes, some companies are overvalued, but it isn't because of index investors.

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Post by bigcat12345678 »

tensor wrote: post #133
bigcat12345678 wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am Chinese and AI founder since 2023 This statement is completely baseless 1. Manus was never targeting Chinese domestic market, for obvious reasons 2. Manus was founded by successful founder with exit, backed toptier investors in China, they always have great reputation in the AI industry 3. Prior to manus' launch, the team developed Monica, as they are the frontier AI chat bot aggregator I really felt disgusted b…

It has nothing to do with being Chinese. The fact that the founder with previous connections is exactly what people are suggesting is a problem. I think China will beat the US in AI but absolutely not using this silicon valley style bullshit model of valuation. Companies like the one that produced Deepseek using cutting edge academic research to do more with vastly less are hat will win. New algorithms will beat mone…

If it has nothing to do with being Chinese founded, then why it stated obviously baseless statements without objections until myself pointed out the facts. I mean, manus is top tier by any measure in the startup scene, and someone just say that it's a joke, then sane people's immediate reaction should be asking why, right?

Why suddenly it becomes automatically accepted, other than being a Chinese founded startup, tell me, what else can prompts such mental inconsistency?

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Post by femiagbabiaka »

bko wrote: post #157
dinniwang wrote: post #89

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There's a saying "follow the money". In this case you just need to follow the people involved in this company and the ones who negotiated this deal from Meta side and you will get the answer why it was acquired and why its valued so high. Financial engineering and social networking at its best.

Their wiki says they have ARR over 100m. Pretty impressive for a product that's 9 months old. 20x multiple is high sure, but hardly seems like friends giving friends money for ... reasons

My observation is that 100m ARR in this AI economy is impressive but not particularly rare. There's a lot of hype sales and WoM sales going on.

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Post by jjulius »

ipaddr wrote: post #119
jjulius wrote: post #47

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>What’s the difference between social media and books? I am struggling to believe that this was asked in good faith.

If we just take this idea in good faith one could make the point that social media and books are more similiar than they appear. They both end up in escapism. They both can teach or entertain. They both are mostly anti-social. The difference in form increases effectiveness but in the end they are a tool that is designed to escape reality.

>... in the end they are a tool that is designed to escape reality.

Non-fiction books would strongly beg to differ.

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