Manus AI captures worldwide interest with its AI Agents

On March 6, 2025, Manus AI was launched. According to the parent company, Butterfly Effect, more than 2 million people have been waitlisted to receive the code. On the Manus AI homepage, examples of agent-based applications are available for viewing; they demonstrate how Manus can assess the environment, select and execute tools, adapt, and deliver comprehensive results from a simple prompt.

Manus AI is the latest innovation that has rivaled DeepSeek with respect to industry hype and interest from the AI industry. However, the innovation behind Manus is not due to a new LLM or any other newly developed offering disrupting the AI supply chain; instead, it’s a clever and smart use of existing AI technologies that demonstrates what is possible with AI agents … truly an autonomous agent.

Regarding comparisons being made between Manus and DeepSeek, it is unlikely that Manus will cause drastic movements in the stock market, nor give cause for organizations to reevaluate their investments in AI hardware as DeepSeek did. However, like DeepSeek, this does represent a transformation of what is possible with agent-based technologies and sets a benchmark that will have an impact on all organizations and vendors with their AI agent initiatives. The first vendor that needs to reassess their technologies will be OpenAI, since Manus appears to include the capabilities from both OpenAI Operator and Deep Research into a single product, and it will likely be more price competitive when pricing becomes available.

Here's our current analysis of Manus AI and please feel free to contact me if you would like to discuss further.

https://www.infotech.com/research/assessing-manus-the-future-of-agentic-ai

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