Manus AI Agent: Technology analysis and market outlook of the world's first universal AI Agent

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, AI Agent is moving from concept to reality and becoming a new hot spot in the field of AI. On March 5, 2025, a product called Manus AI Agent suddenly appeared in the public eye and quickly sparked heated discussions on social platforms such as Twitter. As a product known as "the world's first universal AI Agent", Manus not only surpassed well-known competitors such as OpenAI in terms of technical performance, but also attracted the attention of global technology enthusiasts and investors with its simplicity and ease of use and powerful task execution capabilities. This article will conduct in-depth analysis of the background, technical highlights, market response and future potential of Manus AI Agent.

1. What is the Manus AI Agent?

Manus AI Agent was developed by a company called Manus AI, and its core positioning is to create a "General AI Agent". According to official introductions and discussions on the X platform, Manus’ goal is to “turn your ideas into actions”, aiming to be an all-round digital assistant who can autonomously complete everything from simple queries to complex tasks without the need for continuous human intervention.

Manus is characterized by "simple and easy to use" and "quality results" - users only need to enter a simple command (prompt) and can obtain high-quality output without any AI knowledge or experience. This design concept of "solving any problem in one step" distinguishes Manus from traditional AI workflows and also makes it closer to the needs of ordinary users. Furthermore, Manus's name comes from the Latin word "manus", symbolizing its role as a human "action assistant". According to its official website (manus.im), Manus can not only handle daily tasks such as schedule and data analysis, but also conduct in-depth research, generate visual content, and even produce teaching videos for middle school students, demonstrating its wide applicability across fields.

2. Technical strength: SOTA performance of GAIA benchmark test

The technical strength of Manus AI Agent is the key to its rapid popularity. Manus has achieved the latest SOTA (State-of-the-Art) results in the GAIA benchmark (General AI Assistant Benchmark, used to evaluate the practical problem-solving capabilities of general AI assistants). This achievement not only surpassed OpenAI's Deep Research and other competitors, but also marked its breakthrough in task planning and execution capabilities.

X user @PatrickKavanagh (a netizen who claims to be a Manus investor) also posted on March 5: "The Manus team today launched a very powerful general-purpose AI Agent that outperformed OpenAI's Deep Research in benchmarks, and its planning capabilities are incredible." He also mentioned that Manus showed "incredibly powerful" in solving actual tasks, which echoed the results of the GAIA test.

The GAIA benchmark is divided into three difficulty levels and is designed to evaluate how AI performs in real-world problems. Manus leads at all levels, a achievement that is attributed to the "pure Chinese team" behind it. Although this statement has not been officially confirmed in public information, it undoubtedly adds the halo of national pride to Manus.

3. Core highlights: The leap from "thinking" to "action"

Unlike traditional AI chatbots (such as ChatGPT) that mainly stay at the "dialogue" level, the biggest highlight of Manus AI Agent lies in its "action ability". According to a tweet from X user @indigo11 (professed to be from the Monica IM team), Manus is "already close to the ideal digital version of AI Agent" and can automate tasks, search information, find information, write code, and even generate documents in various formats. He described it as "a true personal digital assistant" who can do "all the work you can do with a computer."

Specifically, some typical application scenarios are mentioned in Manus's official website and X discussion:

1. Personalized travel planning: Integrate information and generate customized travel manuals.

2. Stock analysis: conduct in-depth research and design visual dashboards.

3. Educational support: Create video demonstration materials for teachers, such as explaining momentum theorem.

4. Business decisions: Compare insurance policies and generate clear comparison tables to provide optimization suggestions.

5. Market research: Analyze Amazon's market sentiment changes in the past four quarters.

The implementation of these functions is inseparable from Manus' innovation in "big model + tool use". Manus is an "all-round, no assistance" agent, which means it integrates three components: planning, memory and tool use. This architecture allows it to disassemble complex tasks independently and perform step by step, without relying on user continuous input like traditional models.

4. Market response: Hot discussions and invitation code craze on X platform

On March 5, 2025, the release of Manus sparked an explosive discussion on the X platform. Many users were amazed at its features, and also set off a wave of "invitation codes". It is reported that the current use of Manus requires invitation codes, which further increases its mystery and scarcity. In addition, some users began to explore the business prospects of Manus. Users asked a thought-provoking question: "Will such an Agent application hit the gun of the next generation of the big model company?" This reflects people's attention to the competitive relationship between Manus and giants such as OpenAI and Google.