Meta acquires Manus AI, the era of General Agent officially begins?

In the future, your WhatsApp and IG might directly help you book flights or handle business orders.

1/ 📢 is Meta's important strategic layout after WhatsApp and Scale AI.
Why is even a giant like Meta rushing to "buy up"?

2/ 🤖 Manus AI is hailed as the "world's first general AI agent (General Purpose Agent)".

Unlike traditional ChatGPT that can only "chat," Manus's core capability lies in "execution." It not only gives you suggestions but can directly help you screen resumes, analyze stocks, and even autonomously write and deploy code. It can switch between multiple tools and web pages like a human employee, completing complex long-chain tasks.

3/ 🚀 Meta's move this time is to secure a ticket to the "Era of Intelligent Agents":

From "dialogue" to "action": Meta needs to upgrade Llama from a chatbot to a "digital employee." In the future, your WhatsApp and IG might directly help you book flights or handle business orders.

Talent and technology positioning: Manus's team (formerly Monica team) has proven they can develop agent logic that surpasses major companies in a very short time.

Commercialization urgency: Manus has been online for less than a year, with an annualized revenue exceeding one billion USD. This demonstrates that "AI that can do work for people" has extremely strong monetization potential.

4/ 🌊 Is this the AI acquisition wave now? Absolutely. We are in the second stage of AI development: "Big fish eat small fish, and the ecosystem determines life or death."

ByteDance once wanted to acquire it (but was rejected for offering too low).

Microsoft, Google, and Amazon are all frantically scouting the market for Agentic AI teams. Major companies have found that, compared to developing from scratch, acquiring small elite teams (like Manus, Limitless, etc.) that have already proven their business model is more efficient.