Manus
Formerly Chinese AI company that reincorporated in Singapore; its acquisition by Meta was blocked by Beijing despite payment already being made.
“Manus was disruptive. It could run, their agents ran longer and they could go further than other products we were using.”
Source→“Manus had already launched. After Manus launched, I realized the agentic concept would quickly become consensus. And after Manus launched, one very significant impact on us was: it took the tech brand crown that startup companies fight over.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.