ManusAI Joins Meta

Re:ManusAI Joins Meta by oefrha on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @03:44AM (#46430975)

Manus attempted to ride the wave of DeepSeek and hired an army of influencers inside and outside of China, especially inside, to hype it up as the second coming of DeepSeek, even though they didn’t target the Chinese domestic market (as you correctly pointed out). IIRC it quickly became a joke in about two weeks after it became obvious that they were a thin layer on top of Claude and all marketing. I don’t know how they maneuvered into the current acquisition (feasting on Zuck’s fomo?), but saying “they always have great reputation in the AI industry” is laughable. This kind of garbage damages your reputation by loose association, you should be mad at them, not commenters.

Edit: Actually, the announcement doesn’t say anything about valuation, so it’s not even clear it’s a successful exit.

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Re:ManusAI Joins Meta by bigcat12345678 on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @10:00AM (#46433940)

I don't get it

Riding a wave of industry is literally the foundation of startups paradiam itself. Why it suddenly became a sin for a Chinese founded startup?

This is exactly the disgusting bias (even to the point of racism) I mostly pointed out.

It's like everyone automatically applied double standards to Chinese founded startup and not even admit that under such influence.

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Re:ManusAI Joins Meta by oefrha on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @10:10PM (#46440856)

Riding a wave is fine. Stealing someone else’s clout and falsely advertising your product is not. This applies to every other shitty AI company with little to offer on top of someone else’s foundational model, regardless of origin country. It’s just that Manus is particularly egregious in their false advertising, and their bullshit is an insult to people doing actual heavy lifting, like DeepSeek or Alibaba Qwen team.

Are they the only grifters? No, not by a long shot. Are they the only ones ridiculed? No.

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Re:ManusAI Joins Meta by bigcat12345678 on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @03:41AM (#46442461)

> It’s just that Manus is particularly egregious in their false advertising, and their bullshit is an insult to people doing actual heavy lifting, like DeepSeek or Alibaba Qwen team.

I still felt this baseless.

Manus at the time is break through result. Are they egregious in advertising they being deepseek moment? I don't know think so. Is it a marketing ploy? Yes, but it's far less egregious than any normal AI startup, like cluely.

Comparing to deepseek or qwen, heavy lifting what? Manus is built on Claude at the time it's doing egregious marketing, how can it be considered heavy lifted by unrelated products. What's the point you want to make?

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Re:ManusAI Joins Meta by oefrha on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @05:08AM (#46442883)

It was never a breakthrough of any kind, especially not the "half of all office work are now obsolete" kind they tried to claim.

> Comparing to deepseek or qwen, heavy lifting what?

DeepSeek and Qwen were/are building reputation. Manus was stealing and tanking it. That's what it was.

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