The race for artificial intelligence (AI) supremacy is intensifying. Chinese company, Monica, has introduced a new product that claims to be a fully autonomous "AI agent" known as Manus.
What sets Manus apart is its ability to initiate tasks independently, without human intervention. Its developers claim that it can even browse the web and place orders autonomously, eliminating the need for constant user input.
Manus operates as a multi-agent system, meaning it leverages multiple specialized AI models working in tandem. Each model focuses on a specific aspect of a task, such as data acquisition, code generation, report writing, or web deployment. This distributed architecture allows Manus to efficiently handle a wide range of tasks.
According to various reports, Manus has set new state-of-the-art performance benchmarks across all three difficulty levels, surpassing OpenAI’s Deep Research in the GAIA benchmark for real-world, problem-solving capabilities.
The developers plan to open-source some of the models of Manus. It will be interesting to see if this will serve as the industry’s entrance into the realm of artificial general intelligence (AGI).
