AI, China and Manus

China's newest AI model Manus is dividing opinion over DeepSeek comparisons. Here's what to know.
China's Manus claims to be the first fully autonomous AI agent. Some researchers are calling it a leap in AI capabilities — others aren't convinced.
China's DeepSeek resolves issue briefly affecting its AI reasoning model
China's DeepSeek said on Monday an issue impacting its advanced R1 artificial intelligence reasoning model was resolved after a brief outage. The outage hit its application programming interface (API) and web chat service.
Manus probably isn’t China’s second ‘DeepSeek moment’
Manus wasn’t developed entirely from scratch. According to reports on social media, the platform uses a combination of existing and fine-tuned AI models, including Anthropic’s Claude and Alibaba’s Qwen, to perform tasks such as drafting research reports and analyzing financial filings.
China has a new ‘completely autonomous’ AI agent. Here’s what to know about Manus
In the past year, artificial intelligence leaders have talked about the advent of agents that can do work autonomously. Now, China says it has developed the world’s first.
China's DeepSeek says advanced AI reasoning model currently unavailable
China's DeepSeek said on Monday its advanced R1 artificial intelligence reasoning model was facing an outage, affecting its application programming interface (API) and web chat service.
China’s six-year-olds are already being offered AI classes in school in a bid to train the next generation of DeepSeek founders
Other countries like Estonia, England, Canada, South Korea, and America are training students too.
Chinese AI ‘Manus’ went viral like DeepSeek, but can it compete with ChatGPT’s AI agents?
The Manus chatbot and AI agent from The Butterfly Effect went viral, with some seeing it as the next DeepSeek sensation out ...
DeepSeek: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot app
DeepSeek has gone viral. Chinese AI lab DeepSeek broke into the mainstream consciousness this week after its chatbot app rose ...
Overhyped: Manus from Monica - AI Made In China
Manus AI isn’t a breakthrough—it’s just another LLM executing scripted workflows. True AI success lies in integration, ...
DeepSeek is no Sputnik, but it’s an important accelerator for AI in business
Instead of looking at comparisons to past breakthroughs like Sputnik, let’s look at what DeepSeek tells us about where AI is ...
The US has been watching DeepSeek since late 2023 and still has a way to beat it, Biden's former AI advisor says
"We should tighten the screws and continue to constrain them," Ben Buchanan said of DeepSeek.
It's time to ban Chinese AI app DeepSeek from 'government devices,' state AGs urge Congress
Attorneys general from 21 states penned a letter to congressional leaders urging them to pass legislation to ban the ...
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Will 2025 Be a Tough Year for DOGE and SHIB? DeepSeek AI Weighs In
Dogecoin (DOGE) and Shiba Inu (SHIB), popular meme coins in the cryptocurrency market, are at a critical point, as the year ...
DeepSeek says its AI models would have a 545% profit margin — if everyone who uses them pays
DeepSeek shared theoretical cost-profit margins of 545%, but they assume everyone who uses its largely free AI models would ...