Autonomous general-purpose AI agent from Butterfly Effect that plans, browses, codes, and executes multi-step tasks in its own virtual computer.
Autonomous general-purpose AI agent from Butterfly Effect that plans, browses, codes, and executes multi-step tasks in its own virtual computer.
Manus is a general-purpose autonomous agent built by Beijing- and Singapore-based Butterfly Effect. Positioned as a hands-on action engine rather than a chat assistant, it takes a natural-language goal — write a market-research report, book a trip, migrate a codebase, populate a spreadsheet from ten sources — and executes it end-to-end inside a sandboxed virtual computer with a real browser, shell, and code interpreter. Users watch Manus plan, click, scroll, download files, run Python, edit documents, and deliver a finished artifact instead of a wall of text. Under the hood Manus orchestrates a fleet of specialized sub-agents, plus multi-model routing between frontier LLMs, and maintains long-lived memory across sessions so it can pick a project back up days later. It launched in invitation-only preview in early 2025, hit broad availability later that year, and became one of the fastest-growing consumer AI products of 2026. The public offering includes a free tier with limited daily credits and a Plus/Pro subscription for higher usage, longer-running tasks, and priority access to more capable models. Manus is one of the most-cited examples of the shift from 'AI that answers' to 'AI that gets it done,' and it is frequently compared to OpenAI's Operator and Anthropic's computer-use products.
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