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The launch of Manus AI, a general AI agent that claims to bridge minds and actions, is considered China’s “second DeepSeek moment”. In January, the country had released DeepSeek, a rival to OpenAI’s GPT-4.
Yichao ‘Peak’ Ji, a 33-year-old Chinese entrepreneur and tech enthusiast known for creating the mobile browser Mammoth and founding Peak Labs in the US, is the cofounder and chief scientist of Manus AI.
While DeepSeek signalled China’s progress in large language models, Manus is a leap into AI autonomy, capable of executing multi-step…
