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  1. It's pretty interesting to see how #China can order a #US company to unwind the purchase of another company in #Singapore, after it was already complete. 🇺🇸 #Meta > 🇸🇬 #Manus ❌ 🇨🇳 #Government #SingaporeWashing

    China's Manus founders seek $1...

  2. It's pretty interesting to see how #China can order a #US company to unwind the purchase of another company in #Singapore, after it was already complete. 🇺🇸 #Meta > 🇸🇬 #Manus ❌ 🇨🇳 #Government #SingaporeWashing

    China's Manus founders seek $1...

  3. It's pretty interesting to see how #China can order a #US company to unwind the purchase of another company in #Singapore, after it was already complete. 🇺🇸 #Meta > 🇸🇬 #Manus ❌ 🇨🇳 #Government #SingaporeWashing

    China's Manus founders seek $1...

  4. It's pretty interesting to see how #China can order a #US company to unwind the purchase of another company in #Singapore, after it was already complete. 🇺🇸 #Meta > 🇸🇬 #Manus ❌ 🇨🇳 #Government #SingaporeWashing

    China's Manus founders seek $1...

  5. It's pretty interesting to see how #China can order a #US company to unwind the purchase of another company in #Singapore, after it was already complete. 🇺🇸 #Meta > 🇸🇬 #Manus ❌ 🇨🇳 #Government #SingaporeWashing

    China's Manus founders seek $1...

  6. "Manus seemed to embody the dream of taking a local success global. Launched in 2025 as a general-purpose AI agent, it was marketed as China’s answer to the era of agentic AI. It went viral almost instantly, with Benchmark leading a $75 million round. Meta later moved to acquire the company for a shocking $2 billion.

    But the very magnitude of Meta’s offer, which made Manus’s success so dazzling, also did not bode well. The NDRC’s order to dismantle the deal has raised a series of questions.

    Manus’s position in China’s AI ecosystem matters. Manus was not a foundation-model company in the DeepSeek mold, which makes the forced unwind especially curious. Unlike DeepSeek, Manus is a general-purpose agent whose core technology is not a self-developed large model. Instead, it orchestrates Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, Qwen, search engines, tools, and retrieval systems to complete tasks.

    In fact, Manus has long been labeled a “wrapper”—an app that coordinates other, more critical apps—which sits low on the technical prestige hierarchy. There is, arguably, relatively light “core tech” involved. Even founder Xiao Hong seemed to acknowledge this, arguing last year that “when a wrapper is done to perfection, it becomes genius,” and emphasizing customer experience as Manus’s competitive edge. Even in agentic AI, Manus does not appear to have a deep moat. OpenAI and Google are steadily building agentic capabilities into their own foundation models. Manus, in other words, does not necessarily have much irreplaceable core technology to speak of."

    foreignpolicy.com/2026/05/06/c

    #China #AI #GenerativeAI #Manus #Meta

  7. The Register: China blocks Zuck’s acquisition of AI outfit Manus. “China has blocked Meta’s acquisition of AI upstart Manus. A brief Monday statement from the Middle Kingdom’s foreign investment regulator says Beijing ‘made a decision to prohibit foreign investment in the Manus project in accordance with laws and regulations, and has required the parties involved to withdraw the […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/29/the-register-china-blocks-zucks-acquisition-of-ai-outfit-manus/
  8. What’s clear about the #Manus saga? A perfect example of how a gangster style government like CCP #China shows how it can keep Chinese entrepreneurs in China. Tech giants like #Meta should stop their current strategies of buying start-ups by Chinese talents and being silent about China’s deeds.

  9. Mark Zuckerberg:

    > learned Mandarin
    > gave speeches in Mandarin in China
    > put Xi Jinping’s book on his desk
    > asked Xi Jinping to name his baby
    > got rejected
    > tried to bring Facebook back to China
    > got rejected
    > explored China-friendly censorship tools
    > got rejected
    > quietly tested a China-only app
    > got rejected
    > bought an AI company with Chinese roots
    > got rejected by China again

    🚨 China has blocked Meta's $2 billion purchase of AI firm Manus.
    #Meta #Facebook #Manus #China

  10. Meta devait acheter Manus, la Chine a finalement bloqué l’opération dlvr.it/TSGWpB #Meta #Manus