AI Agent Manus Partners With Alibaba to Serve Users in China Manus, a new artificial intelligence agent that has gone viral on social media, announced that it is teaming up with Alibaba Group to offer its service to users in China. Manus, launched last week on an invitation-only basis, has attracted a lot of attention based on a demo video that impressed many AI industry watchers, but the global product isn’t optimized for Chinese users who want to use it. In a statement on Chinese social media site Weibo on Tuesday, Manus said it will work with Alibaba’s team that develops the Qwen open-source AI foundation models to support the AI agent’s functions in China on domestic models and computing platforms. Manus, developed in China by a Singapore-registered company called Butterfly Effect, uses Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet AI model to help power its AI agent. Its website requires Google accounts for signups. In China, the government blocks Google and many other U.S. internet services, and AI models from U.S. companies like Anthropic and OpenAI haven’t been approved by regulators. https://www.reuters.com/t.. #🇨🇳 ChinA.I. 🤖🧠🦾🤖