Only a few innovations have sparked as much buzz in 2025 as Manus AI. Manus AI was launched in March by Chinese Monica and its goal is unlike many other AI chatbots. Manus doesn’t just assist, it acts. What sets Manus apart is its ability to chain tasks together such as build websites, write reports and analyze stocks. It makes decisions independently, making it accessible to those with zero technical background. This article dives into the most up-to-date statistics and facts surrounding Manus AI as of 2025. (Source) (Source) (Source)
Core elements of Manus AI
- Autonomous browsing with full interaction like a human
- Write and run code within a sandboxed environment
- Great In depth research from multiple sources
- Creating visual datasets like charts or tables
- Publishing websites directly into live subdomains (Source)
Top 10 facts about Manus AI
- Launched: It was released on March 6, 2025, by the Chinese company Monica (also known as Butterfly Effect AI), and it immediately made headlines in the global AI race.
(Source) - Performance: Manus AI outperformed big names like OpenAI’s DeepResearch on the GAIA benchmark—scoring 86.5% on basic tasks and over 70% on intermediate ones.
(Source) - Users: Over two million users joined the Manus waitlist within a week of its debut.
(Source) - Multi-Agent Backbone: Forget about prompting. Manus uses agents like “Planner” and “Executor” to think and act independently.
(Source) - Powered by: Manus is powered by Claude (Anthropic), Qwen (Alibaba), and its own stack.
(Source) - Overloaded servers: Users report issues like slowdowns and outright task failures when the servers are overloaded.
(Source) - Data Privacy: The fact that it’s built in China—has sparked debate around user control and data leakage.
(Source) - Alibaba’s Qwen Team: Qwen supercharges Manus’s LLM backend.
(Source) - Backed by the Chinese Government: Manus has appeared on CCTV, and been greenlit for commercial generative AI use in China.
(Source) - Pricing: $39/month for Manus starter and $199/month for Manus Pro
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How does Manus AI work?
The Manus system takes user input via chat or file upload and routes it through a coordination layer that manages memory, breaks down tasks, and sends them to different agents. These agents handle web browsing, data analysis, code automation, and file processing. Results are returned as reports, charts, websites, spreadsheets or even games. (Source)
Strengths of Manus AI
- Makes multi step tasks with ease
- Can browse and interact with real websites
- Writes and runs code smoothly
- Can build and deploy websites (Source)
Weaknesses of Manus AI
- Complex tasks can take hours to complete
- Can get stuck or fail during large tasks
- Code may not always work on harder problems
- Has a limited set of models (Mainly Claude) (Source)
Sandbox environment
A session in Manus AI runs in a Linux-based sandbox for security. Inside the sandbox there is full browser capabilities where Manus can navigate the web. You also get to a file system for reading and saving data. It includes a Python environment so that it can write and run Python code. Also a terminal command execution. (Source)
Manus compared to other AI tools
It is positioned as one of the most advanced AI agents to date, beating AI tools like H2O.ai and Langfun. It is also far beyond OpenAI’s GPT-4o´s abilities. (Source)
Reviews on Manus AI
MIT Technology Review called Manus “promising but not perfect.” They called it slower and prone to crashing compared to OpenAI. (Source)
TechCrunch did not like it, reporting that Manus struggled with basic tasks. Also claimed that it is not China’s second DeepSeek moment. (Source)
Tom’s Guide found that Manus outperforms ChatGPT in certain scenarios, and that it was great at tasks requiring remembering context. (Source)
Business Insider had issues with Manus generating synthetic data without user consent. (Source)
McNeece.com praised Manus for its ability to execute complex tasks, but also noted that a human has to assess. (Source)
What is made using Manus AI?
As mentioned earlier, Manus AI is great at creating websites, games, writing reports and a lot more.
Creating a dynamic website
An example of what can be made using Manus AI could be this guy, who created a whole dynamic website in just 2 minutes. The only input that he gave was “create a dynamic teaching webpage for quantum computing for me” and then it spat out the entire thing a couple of minutes later. Although some things may need to get fixed by a human afterwards, this is still very impressive. Watch it: here
Creating a game
Manus AI could also be a huge deal in game development. This plane game was created using only a few instructions. This could speed up the game development process by many hours. Watch it: here
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