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Beijing is reportedly boosting domestic AI firms that have received overseas recognition. In its latest, the Chinese artificial intelligence startup Manus was featured for the first time in a state media broadcast. The company has recently registered its China-facing AI assistant.
Manus gained attention in the tech world when it released what it claimed to be the world’s first general AI agent. It stated that it could handle complex tasks with much less prompting compared to chatbots from DeepSeek or ChatGPT.
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Investors are celebrating the company as another breakthrough following the low-cost AI models from DeepSeek. However, its availability remained limited after launch. Users aiming to test Manus were frustrated since the product could only be tested with an invitation-only arrangement. Such was the scarcity that critics accused the Manus team of intentionally deploying scarcity marketing tactics.
“The current invite-only mechanism is due to genuinely limited server capacity at this stage.” -Manus AI’s product partner Zhang Tao.
Nevertheless, Beijing has been supporting Manus’ rollout within China, much like its stance on DeepSeek’s success. On March 20, State broadcaster CCTV devoted television coverage to Manus for the first time. It published a video on the difference between its AI agent and DeepSeek’s AI chatbot.
The company has also completed the registration for its AI assistant Monica. Registration is required for generative AI apps in China, with Manus clearing an important regulatory hurdle.
All generative AI applications released in China are required to abide by strict rules. These rules exist to ensure that these products do not generate content considered sensitive or damaging by Beijing.
Despite its success, Manus has been publicly questioned for the originality of its technology. This is because the product is based on existing large language models (LLMs), whose details the team did not disclose. This is different from the foundation model innovation from DeepSeek.
For this article, we selected AI stocks by going through news articles, stock analysis, and press releases. These stocks are also popular among hedge funds. The hedge fund data is as of Q4 2024.
