“MANUS AI: HYPE VS. REALITY 🔍 @peakji (co-founder of @ManusAI_HQ) confirmed rumors: ✅ Built on Anthropic Claude Sonnet, not their own foundation model ✅Has access to 29 tools and uses @browser_use open-source for browser control ✅User communicates with executor agent and not https://x.com/_philschmid/status/1899046957860979178
“The popular AI agent “Manus” launched in China is automating about 50 tasks, and the scenario is too dystopian. It’s said to be more accurate than DeepSeek. It can simultaneously perform SNS analysis, financial transactions, research, purchasing, and more. https://x.com/thinking_panda/status/1897951585990590469
“I think China’s second DeepSeek moment is here. This AI agent called ‘Manus’ is going crazy viral in China right now. Probably only a matter of time until it hits the US. It’s like Deep Research + Operator + Claude Computer combined, and it’s REALLY good. https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1898093008601395380
“I tested Manus AI. It’s the closest thing I’ve experienced to a truly autonomous AI agent. I can’t wait till this thing can use desktop apps like Premiere and Photoshop. It low key feels like baby AGI. Here’s my 10 minute review: https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1898945929970843842
“iPhone manufacturer Foxconn announced FoxBrain, its first LLM with advanced reasoning —Developed in 4 weeks using Nvidia’s tech and support —Optimized for traditional Chinese —Performance near top models —Will be used in manufacturing and supply chain https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1899350947718926670
“Have not played with Manus (the much hyped agent from China) yet but this seems credible The current frontier LLMs are very good & their abilities have not been fully explored even by the labs making them. Too much waiting for mysterious new LLMs, too little pushing what we have” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1898930212521283848
“We are proud to partner with @deutschetelekom to make Perplexity Assistant the native feature on their new AI Phone. https://x.com/perplexity_ai/status/1896560542556533217
OpenAI calls DeepSeek ‘state-controlled,’ calls for bans on ‘PRC-produced’ models | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/13/openai-calls-deepseek-state-controlled-calls-for-bans-on-prc-produced-models/
DeepSeek isn’t taking VC money yet — here are 3 reasons why | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/10/deepseek-isnt-taking-vc-money-yet-here-are-3-reasons-why/
“QwQ-32B evals on par with Deep Seek R1 680B but runs fast on a laptop. Delivery accepted. Here it is running nicely on a M4 Max with MLX. A snippet of its 8k token long thought process: https://x.com/awnihannun/status/1897394318434034163
“Manus AI is pretty good at vibe coding games. Just gave one prompt: “code a threejs game where you control an f-117 nighthawk and can drop bombs over a data center and accumulate points for how many runaway AGIs you destroyed.” And got this: https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1898814743193768014
“Manus pod with @swyx, @deanwball and @krishnanrohit out now https://x.com/jordanschnyc/status/1899198463373398300?s=46
Open R1: Update #3 https://huggingface.co/blog/open-r1/update-3
“Taiwan’s Foxconn launches its first large language model called ‘FoxBrain’ https://x.com/Reuters/status/1899130627091239366
“Sakana AIはAI技術を活用した事業推進にあたり、セキュリティの設計・実装・運用を担うCybersecurity Engineerを募集します。LLMやAIエージェントを用いて一緒にビジネス価値を作りたい方は、ぜひご応募ください！ https://x.com/SakanaAILabs/status/1899769768858857770
“R1 in Q4 getting to 18t/s on a new M3 Ultra. That’s what, $9K? getting there.” / X https://x.com/teortaxesTex/status/1899480424834899993
Sakana AI on X: “The AI Scientist Generates its First Peer-Reviewed Scientific Publication We’re proud to announce that a paper produced by The AI Scientist-v2 passed the peer-review process at a workshop in ICLR, a top AI conference. Read more about this experiment → https://t.co/LpLYLnZMCQ
“getting some fantastic results running R1 (30 tokens/s!!!) on 3x abacus + two sticks with int0 quantization” / X https://x.com/cis_female/status/1899307802423632085
“A key to AI agents is an ability to self-correct. The world is full of odd errors and weirdness, and if AI can’t recognize and problem-solve when it hits a wall, errors compound & the agent is useless It doesn’t always, but here is Manus hitting problems & improvising solutions https://x.com/emollick/status/1899192116443509139
“Excited about our latest global partnership. We’ll be working with LG CNS to co-develop SOTA agentic Korean models that seamlessly integrate with North to accelerate enterprise AI adoption in South Korea! https://x.com/aidangomez/status/1899133769161797880
“The team behind Manus partnered with Alibaba’s Qwen to develop a Chinese version of its autonomous agent The collaboration will integrate Manus with Qwen’s open-source models and computing infra This comes just after Manus went viral last week! https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1899713389439377678
“We’re excited to announce a strategic partnership with LG CNS to co-develop secure agentic AI solutions for South Korean enterprises. This marks another step in our global expansion to unlock real value for businesses across markets! https://x.com/cohere/status/1899083562495713516
“Copilot Voice speaks over 40 languages now! Whether you want to chat in Japanese or translate Italian, it has you covered. And Zurich team, don’t judge me while I try to learn “hi, how are you” in German. https://x.com/mustafasuleyman/status/1890091173517357460
US-blacklisted Zhipu AI gets fresh funding from Chinese state firm | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/us-blacklisted-zhipu-ai-gets-fresh-funding-chinese-state-firm-2025-03-13/
“Alibaba’s QwQ-32B, a 32.5-billion-parameter language model, demonstrates reasoning abilities comparable to much larger models like DeepSeek-R1. Fine-tuned with reinforcement learning in two stages, it excels in math, coding, and other forms of problem-solving while remaining” / X https://x.com/DeepLearningAI/status/1900351166086537659
“Alibaba’s Qwen team dropped QwQ-32B, a reasoning AI that matches or surpasses DeepSeek-R1 at much less cost —20x smaller than DeepSeek-R1 —Priced $0.20 per million input and output tokens —Open-sourced under Apache 2.0 Here it is running on M4 Max: https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1897554323489325517
“Llama models were used to develop India’s first open source audio language model — Shuka v1 ➡️ https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/1900271556917682405
“MagicBot by MagicLab went for a jog at Lake Taihu in China. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1899163256415224032
“Folks, we have set up a github repo for QwQ, specifically providing evaluation scripts for you to easily test the benchmark performance of reasoning models, and also reproduce our reported results. We provide step-by-step guidance for you to run the evaluation, and we hope this” / X https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/1900595120053047452
“DeepSeek made it abundantly and nakedly clear that the models have been commoditized. If there was any doubt before, that doubt is now over. So, what is the moat right now? For me, I love Hamilton Helmer’s “Seven Powers.” If marketing is the art of decommoditizing your product, https://x.com/JonathanRoss321/status/1899169648395833703
“Many recent frontier LLMs like Grok-3 and DeepSeek-R1 use a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture. To understand how it works, let’s pretrain an MoE-based LLM from scratch in PyTorch… nanoMoE is a simple (~500 lines of code) but functional implementation of a mid-sized MoE https://x.com/cwolferesearch/status/1899172553626685532
“👋 Introducing the Enhanced Qwen Chat We are pleased to announce the latest update to Qwen Chat, designed to deliver a seamless, versatile, and user-centric experience. Explore the key features below and visit https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/1899497336889659775
“Thanks to #DeepSeek, even @CNBC [9] now talks about AI distillation, published in 1991 [1][2]. I called it “collapsing,” back then, not “distilling.” See also [9][10]. REFERENCES [1] J. Schmidhuber (JS, 1991). Neural sequence chunkers. TechReport FKI-148-91, Tech Univ. Munich, https://x.com/SchmidhuberAI/status/1899475671958929453
“@danielhanchen Hmmm seems its worse on most benchmarks than mistral 24b but 4x the context length and vision. Hard to decide which is better!” / X https://x.com/Teknium1/status/1899744944669315260
