China’s Manus unnerves Silicon Valley with rollout of AI agents

Manus, the new artificial intelligence tool from China, is disrupting the global tech race with a new AI agent that some analysts believe is far more powerful than the competition.

Manus AI cofounder Yichao “Peak” Ji said in a video preview of his team’s new tool that it is the “first general AI agent.”

He said Manus gives a window into artificial general intelligence, AGI, the term tech researchers use to describe a theoretical artificially intelligent system that can outperform human capabilities...