[HN Gopher] ManusAI Joins Meta
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ManusAI Joins Meta
Author : gniting
Score : 37 points
Date : 2025-12-29 22:24 UTC (35 minutes ago)
(HTM) web link (manus.im)
(TXT) w3m dump (manus.im)
| varunramesh wrote:
| It's everywhere.
| https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1l8harj/its_not_ju...
| embedding-shape wrote:
| Kind of feels like they might have done it on purpose, just to
| "trigger" people and get more engagement. Feels like a lot of
| people are falling for it too, so I guess good for them.
| andy99 wrote:
| It's been very effective watermarking compared to some of the
| more complicated and seemingly unsuccessful methods that have
| been proposed.
| bigyabai wrote:
| > This announcement is more than just a headline--it's validation
| of our pioneering work with General AI Agents.
|
| Is it, now?
| fibers wrote:
| Why Meta and not OAI/Anthropic or Google? Is this their attempt
| after llama4?
| reactordev wrote:
| If you can't beat em. Buy someone who can.
| syspec wrote:
| > This announcement is more than just a headline--it's validation
| of our pioneering work with General AI Agents.
|
| Anyone else thought this was satire when they read that as the
| second line in the announcement?
|
| I literally laughed, then clicked the top left logo, to check out
| the homepage and see if this `ManuAI` was a real website.
|
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| You would think that they would know better to at least edit that
| out.
|
| It's not just ironic -- it's cosmically poetic.
| yanslookup wrote:
| I don't get it.
|
| They are saying the announcement means more to them than just a
| headline that most will scroll past. Maybe you are seeing
| something I'm not.
| sokka_h2otribe wrote:
| Op is saying it sounds like it was written like an LLM
| yanslookup wrote:
| ok... it's an AI company, It'd be odd if it weren't written
| by AI, no?
| conception wrote:
| It is odd that they didn't care or have the wherewithal
| to make it not sound obviously like an LLM wrote it.
| rbtprograms wrote:
| Would that be odd? AI companies are still staffed by
| people, and large announcements like acquihires certainly
| feel like they could use a slightly more human touch if
| they truly mean a lot to the company.
| joshuamerrill wrote:
| The evidence is pretty clear, and it keeps growing. Social media
| causes real harm, both to individuals and to society. It is
| addictive by design, it worsens mental health especially for
| kids, and it rewards outrage and misinformation. In that way,
| social media looks a lot like smoking. It was widely adopted
| before we understood the risks, then aggressively pushed because
| it was profitable.
|
| Meta did more than just take part in this system. It perfected
| it, scaled it worldwide, and resisted meaningful change until
| public pressure or regulation forced its hand.
|
| That is why it is worrying to see Meta present itself as a
| trusted builder of the next major technology wave. When a company
| repeatedly puts growth ahead of social harm, skepticism is not
| bias. It is common sense. Giving that company even more powerful
| and less transparent tools should cause us alarm.
| thierrydamiba wrote:
| What's the difference between social media and books?
|
| Or is your point that all entertainment is harmful to
| individuals and society?
| kylecazar wrote:
| From their Wikipedia, because I had no idea who they were:
|
| "Following Manus's launch in March 2025, Butterfly Effect raised
| $75 million in a funding round led by Benchmark at a valuation of
| approximately $500 million in April 2025."
|
| Half a billion a month after launch and acquisition before the
| end of the same year. Wild times.
| llmslave2 wrote:
| Who?
| howmayiannoyyou wrote:
| Manus was pretty damn good at delivering impressive results well
| before other providers. I stopped using it because I was
| concerned about data privacy and and whatever extent one
| particular foreign country might (or might not) have hooks into
| Manus. Now that Meta has purchased them I know I'm safe
| ((sarcasm)).
|
| I have many questions:
|
| - Will Meta fuck this up as they seem (in my opinion) to do with
| most of the acquisitions? Oculus? Drop.io?
|
| - Did they grossly overpay?
|
| - Will innovation slow to a crawl (eg. Instagram, Whatsapp)?
|
| - Will Manus' top talent bail?
|
| - How is it conceivable Meta couldn't build this themselves. It
| can't possibly have been Manus' user base they were after, can
| it?
|
| - How much trouble am I in for telling my wife to sell her Meta
| stock two weeks ago?
|
| The acquisition is confusing to me.
| andrewinardeer wrote:
| Nothing about how much Meta paid for Manus. Is this an actual
| accuquisition?
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