Today, a major news explosion has taken over—the official announcement that Meta has acquired the General AI Agent platform Manus, with a transaction amounting to several billion dollars. How large is this deal? In Meta’s history, only surpassed by the acquisitions of WhatsApp and Scale AI, it ranks third. Manus founder Xiao Hong (Red) will directly be promoted to Meta Vice President, which itself demonstrates how much Meta values this deal.

But this is not just a big company's "shopping spree"; it reflects a true watershed moment in the entire AI industry—we are moving from the era of "Chat" (simple conversational dialogue) into the era of "Act" (actual action execution).

**Why is Meta making such a move?**

Manus is indeed formidable. It’s completely different from those chatbots that only talk; its core selling point is two words: doing. While others output text in chat boxes, Manus directly gets things done—operating browsers, coding, and managing various complex SaaS software in a sandbox environment like a real person.

The data is even more convincing: only 8 months since launch, its ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) has already exceeded $100 million, handling 147 trillion tokens. Mark Zuckerberg himself has long used this product, which proves its true value.

**How deep is Zuck’s strategic move?**

Some say one sentence can reveal the ambition behind this acquisition—Meta needs an "OS-level brain."

Think about what Meta holds: top global applications like WhatsApp and Instagram, with the largest number of C-end users worldwide. But these apps have always lacked a unifying, truly task-executing intelligent core. Manus’s addition provides Meta with the strongest "digital execution layer."

Looking two or three years ahead, Meta AI in the future will no longer be just about pushing ads. It could directly help you book your family’s flights, hotels, and travel packages in WhatsApp; automatically edit photos, post, and handle private messages on Instagram backend; or even take over your workflow, automating repetitive tasks completely. This is the "OS-level" space of imagination.

**The global breakthrough of the Chinese team**

Manus’s background is also worth mentioning. The company was born in China (its parent company is Butterfly Effect), and earlier this year, its headquarters moved to Singapore. From early days with Monica to now Manus, Xiao Hong (Red) and his team (including Ji Yichao, Zhang Tao, and others) have proven with real actions that Chinese startups in AI application layer are on par with the world’s top standards in product intuition and engineering capabilities.

This is not just a simple business success story; it also represents the solid position of Chinese developers in the global AI competition landscape—being recognized and acquired by the world’s most powerful tech companies with real investment is a significant acknowledgment in itself.