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Manus will return to operating as an independent company

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Re: Manus will return to operating as an independent company

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Post by michelb »

ghshephard wrote: post #28
brazukadev wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In what bubble ChatGPT Work and Claude Cowork are established? I don't know anyone using it regularly and I'm in a bubble of people using lots of AI tools.

Claude CoWork absolutely dominates - I use it continuously now when connecting to mail, calendar, jira, google docs - any type of knowledge work. Almost everyone I know (at work) who does "Knowledge work" type stuff (as opposed to coding) uses it as their primary pane-of-glass now. I have 15+ years of top 1 percentile knowledge using awk to process complex unstructured documents - and I don't even bother anymore - ju…

Simular stories. I work in an L&D company with about 15 coworkers. I think most of us use Cowork/Chatgpt Work almost fulltime. Haven’t used Word or Excel in two months other than to check or correct a bit of formatting from the AI. We now also go straight from Cowork to our CMS for finalizing. Tremendous timesavers but also better integration through our MCP. (AI is used for ideation, information research and writing the first version based on our guidelines. We finalize and/or rewrite material in the CMS by hand. No AI to consumer without verification or editing)

Re: Manus will return to operating as an independent company

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Post by lxgr »

Dayshine wrote: post #35
ghshephard wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Claude CoWork absolutely dominates - I use it continuously now when connecting to mail, calendar, jira, google docs - any type of knowledge work. Almost everyone I know (at work) who does "Knowledge work" type stuff (as opposed to coding) uses it as their primary pane-of-glass now. I have 15+ years of top 1 percentile knowledge using awk to process complex unstructured documents - and I don't even bother anymore - ju…

How much does it cost? ChatGPT costs ~$2 per message; if Anthropic have a similar pricing model don't you find lots of small changes and up fast?

> ChatGPT costs ~$2 per message

For what kind of message are you seeing that kind of charge?

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Post by AndrewKemendo »

loeg wrote: post #31
fmajid wrote: post #22

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The Chinese government may not be a bastion of the rule of law, but they at least seem to still have a functioning antitrust enforcement.

This had nothing to do with antitrust.

What does it have to do with?

Re: Manus will return to operating as an independent company

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Post by smohare »

ghshephard wrote: post #28
brazukadev wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In what bubble ChatGPT Work and Claude Cowork are established? I don't know anyone using it regularly and I'm in a bubble of people using lots of AI tools.

Claude CoWork absolutely dominates - I use it continuously now when connecting to mail, calendar, jira, google docs - any type of knowledge work. Almost everyone I know (at work) who does "Knowledge work" type stuff (as opposed to coding) uses it as their primary pane-of-glass now. I have 15+ years of top 1 percentile knowledge using awk to process complex unstructured documents - and I don't even bother anymore - ju…

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Re: Manus will return to operating as an independent company

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Post by gamblor956 »

throw03172019 wrote: post #24
brazukadev wrote: post #21

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In what bubble ChatGPT Work and Claude Cowork are established? I don't know anyone using it regularly and I'm in a bubble of people using lots of AI tools.

My accountant friend says it’s amazing (he does check the work but says it’s amazingly accurate).

As a counterpoint, the Accounting and Finance departments where I work are banned from using Cowork because it performed abysmally during a trial run.

To put things in perspective, humans with a 25% lower error rate than Cowork are pip'd and usually let go.

As with junior programmers and their love of vibe coding, I've found that anyone who thinks that AI tooling right now is "amazing" lacks the skills, knowledge, and/or experience to know that it really isn't.

Re: Manus will return to operating as an independent company

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Post by jrflowers »

jatins wrote: post #30
trouve_search wrote: post #12

Does anyone here use Manus actively? I found it worse than alternatives in the similar space (Claude, genspark, kagi research, etc.) and slightly baffling they were being acquired at a $2B valuation in the first place.

I found there Deep Research quite good in terms of browsing the web, better than Gemini's. Though it blew through ~40$ in one task so it was very expensive, probably running at insane margins.

What was the task that cost $40?
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