Zuck buys Chinese AI company Manus that claims it deals in actions, not words

Meta will acquire made-in-China AI outfit Manus and harness its “general agent” technology across its products. Manus debuted in March 2025 and immediately pitched itself as a leap beyond generative AI chatbots, which it characterizes as best suited to summarizing information and answering questions. The outfit promotes its …

[Fruit and Nutcase]

Something fishy?

For Chinese regulators to give the green light to the tech being exported, without a comment

[Bluck Mutter]

To quote a famous Admiral..

"It's a Trap"!!!!

[Wang Cores]

Re: Something fishy?

"you can have that one it's going bad anyway"

[martinusher]

Re: Something fishy?

As with the humanoid robot biz what's still regarded as a strategic asset that's gradually being brought on stream in the US appears to be a commodity over there.

We're just having problems coming to terms with the notion that the Chinese may have not just overtaken us but are fast disappearing over the horizon.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Something fishy?

The article is rife with grammatical errors. So I don't think Manus wrote it. Maybe ChatGPT...

[amanfromMars 1]

IT takes Two for Heavenly Company whilst Three or More make a Diabolical Crowd and Deadly Clouds

Manus debuted in March 2025 and immediately pitched itself as a leap beyond generative AI chatbots, which it characterizes as best suited to summarizing information and answering questions.

The outfit promotes its own services as enabling “wide research and context-aware reasoning to produce actionable results in the format you need.”

Hmmmm ‽ Those oriental made-in-China services appear to be remarkably similar to a not accidental occidental offering with the news of such also being very recently aired and shared/trailed and trialed by El Reg for situation publishing.

What do y'all think? Do you recognise the NEUKlearer HyperRadioProACTive AI similarities? .....

.... how to practically create, autonomously and anonymously present and subsequently continue to successfully driver, expand and exploit future leading COSMIC* happenings with all manner of possible 0day situations ...... Events may be overtaking us ... [the Prize Understatement of the Postmodern AI Stage Age]

[Pascal Monett]

So, The Zuck is openly integrating Beijing into his empire

What does that say about his confidence in Western-based chatbots ?

That thing can now open ZIP files on your PC. What guarantees that it's not opening anything else well ?

Facebook was bad enough when it was "only" tracking your online activity. Now it is openly giving itself access to your hard drive (or SSD, whatever).

If I ever had a FB account, I would certainly be shutting it down now.

[blu3b3rry]

Re: So, The Zuck is openly integrating Beijing into his empire

Makes you wonder how long it'll be before the requirements to open a facebook account not only include location and online activity, but having a camera pointed at your face at all times while logged in, along with access to all your local files on your device.

Let's say it's for "user verification processes".

I did have a farcebook account but after several years got fed up with all the crap on there and deleted it. That was almost ten years ago so I'd hate to imagine what a pile of slop it is now.

[Bebu sa Ware]

farcebook…ten years ago…imagine what a pile of slop it is now.

"with all the crap" just made explicit the steaming pile of turds it always was … the turdish tome: fæcesbook.

Manus is an peculiar name for a Chinese AI flinger. Manus would seem to mean "hand" as in Manus Dei but here manus diaboli might be more appropriate. Perhaps that is the (only?) point of Zuckerberg's "deals in actions not words."

LLMs work with tokens which might denote words, actions or anything that could be related to any other thing. Indeed one might suggest AI/LLMs are a roiling cauldron of a witches' brew of denotations spewing forth dubious connotations:

"Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and caldron bubble…

For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble^†."

It would be pleasingly ironic if the house of Zuckerberg were ultimately brought low by its unholy infatuation with AI.

_{† Macbeth act IV sc.1}

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: So, The Zuck is openly integrating Beijing into his empire

I hear the internal project name for this at Meta is "Clockwork Orange" whatever that means.

[Fruit and Nutcase]

Re: So, The Zuck is openly integrating Beijing into his empire

Could there be a charismatic, anti-social delinquent at Meta?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange_(film)

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: So, The Zuck is openly integrating Beijing into his empire, AKA give the CCP another data feed.

Why don't you open a FB Account, so you can close it in disgust and anger and let ALL your followers know via FB !!! :=)

[You will need to coordinate the amassing of followers, 'followed' [Pun intended] by the spectacular closing of the account ... this 'coordination' is something that FB is supposed to be good at.]

:)

[that one in the corner]

Mark Zuckerberg wants to build a ...

What is he going to rename the company to this time?

[WolfFan]

Re: Mark Zuckerberg wants to build a ...

Skynet.

[Neil Barnes]

knows us deeply, understands our goals, and can help us achieve them

So you want dried leaves in boiling water, with the juice squirted out of a cow?

[Bebu sa Ware]

"you want dried leaves in boiling water, with the juice squirted out of a cow?"

You just know™ you are going to get a beaker of senna leaves boiled in cows' piss which would really give you the shits; but then its faecesbook after all.

[Neil Barnes]

Re: "you want dried leaves in boiling water, with the juice squirted out of a cow?"

In other words, something almost but not entirely unlike tea?

[Fruit and Nutcase]

Re: "you want dried leaves in boiling water, with the juice squirted out of a cow?"

Earl Grey

[MiguelC]

Re: "you want dried leaves in boiling water, with the juice squirted out of a cow?"

I would downvote you, but de gustibus non est disputandum

Or, as a Portuguese saying goes, "you don't argue about taste, you lament it" :)

[Fruit and Nutcase]

Re: "you want dried leaves in boiling water, with the juice squirted out of a cow?"

Have one of your namesake

https://www.sanmiguel.com/uk/

https://www.sanmiguel.com/uk/wp-content/.../chicas-cerveza-uk-1536x0-c-default.webp

[Anonymous Coward]

the safety of singapore ?

seems to be defacto for chinese companies to become global and avoid the issues that Hawei had.

latest footnote is interesting , we don't want to go through what tiktok is going through.

[Anonymous Coward]

Giant meh

More online tat for the masses.

[Omnipresent]

If you are still on social

You are probably a chinese influencer working on behalf of russia.

[Anonymous Coward]

we want the same ting

to steal as much data about you. if you give it to meta , might as well let anyone have it.

In 10 years someone in gov will spot they're using other routes to get this data, for the moment it's obvious in the small print and recently added footer what they're upto but not to the people running the country.

[TimMaher]

Meanwhile…

Octopus is selling off Kraken; its AI subsidiary.

They may have taken a close look at the bubble.

[ecofeco]

Needs he says?

What needs?

How refreshingly... vague.

[Marc 13]

So we have "Ai bots replacing humans" where-ever they can.

And now we have Ai automating the job application process.

Prefect: This new Ai will pick the most suitable Ai applicant for the "job" and then that Ai will market the "product" to the procurement Ai to buy. The finance Ai will pay for it and the service and the investor Ai will cash out the funds that own the shares at the perfect moment.

Meanwhile the real humans will get on with doing business with other humans.

[Anonymous Coward]

All western looking applicants were dismissed because "one person is not allowed to submit several applications".

So, only Chinese ones were selected for further examination.