In the early morning of March 6, 2025, Manus, a new AI Agent was introduced. This is another AI technology that is quickly attracting global attention after DeepSeek. Many see it as a new challenge to DeepSeek and ChatGPT.
Unlike other AI models, Manus focuses on results. This raises a lot of questions about what Manus is and what Manus can do. How is it different from others? In this post, all these questions will be answered.
Part 1. What is the Manus AI?
Manus means "hand" and is derived from the Latin word for "mens et manus". This is exactly what Manus AI will do, turning people's ideas into actions.
Manus is the world's first general Agent that is not just capable of carrying out the chat process, it is a truly autonomous agent that bridges the gap between conception and execution to achieve true human-machine collaboration.
Unlike other AI bots such as DeepSeek Chat and ChatGPT, Manus doesn't stop at the step of generating ideas, but moves forward and works to deliver results. Turning your ideas into real-world actions for more complex tasks.
Manus claims to outperform OpenAI's deep research according to GAIA benchmarks (a third-party measure of general-purpose AI assistants).
Part 2. What can Manus do?
As of March 6, 2025, the official demo video on the Manus website has been viewed over 200,000 times. Based on this official demo video of Manus, it's easy to see that Manus understands the commands or questions you enter, autonomously navigates the website and displays its workflow in real time, and ultimately delivers results. The developers of Manus say that Manus doesn't just think, but delivers results, and that it's a truly remarkable AI agent that connects thought with action.
The official website of Manus shows you the steps of how Manus handles real-world tasks with a concrete demonstration of the process. Whether it's planning a trip, investing in stocks, analyzing data, screening candidates, finding clients or creating a presentation, it can generate forms, documents and other specific implementations for you.
In addition to this, Manus also supports working in the cloud. In addition to sending commands to Manus at any time while using it, you can turn off your computer at any time and receive an end notification when Manus has completed its task.
Part 3. How to use Manus?
While you can now go to the Manus website for a preliminary look, if you want to experience Manus, which is considered a multi-agent system, you will have to be on a waiting list unless you have an invitation code.
According to the Manus developers, however, they are systematically open-sourcing certain models step-by-step, especially those that have been specially trained.
There is no need to be discouraged even if you don’t have an invitation code, you can try to use other AI models, like DeepSeek-v3, DeepSeek-R1, and so on. Without any registration or login, just go to the DeepSeek Chat page and then you can enter your commands and get answers.
Part 4. Conclusion
Since the release of DeepSeek-R1, the future goal of AI applications is to have general-purpose AI agents that are able to interact with their environment, collect data, and autonomously process tasks in order to accomplish complex tasks.
Many experts in the industry believe that Manus is introducing a new business model for the AI field, that is, universal AI intelligence, which is perhaps the most widely used AI application scenario after AI search.