Manus (AI agent)

Manus (hand in Latin) is an autonomous artificial intelligence agent developed by startup company Monica, based in Singapore. The agent is designed to independently carry out complex online tasks without direct/continuous human guidance.

Manus
Developer(s)	Monica (also known as Butterfly Effect AI[1])
Initial release	March 6, 2025; 4 months ago (2025-03-06)
Type	Multimodal Large language model Generative pre-trained transformer Foundation model
License	Proprietary
Website	manus.im

History

Manus was founded to create artificial intelligence agents capable of operating independently, based on large language models (LLM). The official launch of Manus was on March 6, 2025. VentureBeat described Manus as a major advance because it could autonomously handle complex tasks, including writing and deploying code.^[2]

See also

• Devin AI