Image created with gemini-2.5-flash-image with claude-sonnet-4-5. Image prompt: Elegant Victorian damask wrapping paper pattern in deep burgundy and antique gold featuring repeating motif of ornate gift boxes wrapped in the same pattern containing themselves, creating sophisticated infinite regress, mirrors and reflective ornamental frames integrated throughout the seamless tile design, META monogram woven in decorative typography, hand-drawn refinement with embossed texture quality, classic holiday gift wrap aesthetic

Introducing Manus: the first general AI agent. Try Manus today and see the future of human-machine collaboration: https://x.com/ManusAI/status/1897294098945728752

Meta just bought the fastest-growing AI agent company in history for what’s probably $1-2B. The math tells you exactly why Zuckerberg did this deal today. Manus hit $100M ARR in eight months. That’s faster than ChatGPT, faster than Midjourney, faster than any AI product ever.”” / X https://x.com/aakashgupta/status/2005815184976417117

Manus Joins Meta: Accelerating AI Innovation for Businesses | Meta for Business https://www.facebook.com/business/news/manus-joins-meta-accelerating-ai-innovation-for-businesses

Meta just acquired Manus AI. Ramp Sheets modeled it out: Estimated price: $4-6B based on AI M&A comps Fastest to $100M ARR in history (8 months) Benchmark likely 8-12x’d in under a year https://x.com/RampLabs/status/2005807066351325470

Also, MSL is hiring in Singapore! We already have some amazing researchers and engineers there, buoyed now by the 100-strong Manus team, and we’re growing fast. Feel free to DM with a resumé if interested!”” / X https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/2005766471516053736

Fun fact: Manus is currently SOTA on the Remote Labor Index (RLI) benchmark that @scale_AI and @ai_risks released earlier this year. https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/2005766785237410107

Introducing Manus Design View https://manus.im/blog/manus-design-view

Manus Update: $100M ARR, $125M revenue run-rate https://manus.im/blog/manus-100m-arr

Meta just bought Manus for >$1B and it makes sense. ~8 Consumer AI apps hit $100M+ arr that aren’t big labs: Perplexity: $20B ElevenLabs: $6.6B Lovable: $6.6B Replit: $3B+ Suno: $2.5B Gamma: $2.1B Character: $1B+ Manus: $500M Meta AI has ~no product. This was the cheapest, and https://x.com/deedydas/status/2005798365733478490

OpenEnv: Meta × Hugging Face’s new open standard for agentic environments. Why it matters: One environment spec and it works everywhere. Train and inference. – Train with TRL, TorchForge, verl, SkyRL, Unsloth – Deploy with the same env you trained on – MCP tool support baked in https://x.com/ben_burtenshaw/status/2005655406522085482

Read the Full Memo Alexandr Wang Sent About Meta’s Massive AI Reorg – Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-superintelligence-labs-reorg-alexandr-wang-memo-2025-8

21 years ago and 13 years ago, two dropouts in this same room set out on their own journeys. Today, those paths merge. https://x.com/peakji/status/2005766826920403290

Excited to announce that @ManusAI has joined Meta to help us build amazing AI products! The Manus team in Singapore are world class at exploring the capability overhang of today’s models to scaffold powerful agents. Looking forward to working with you, @Red_Xiao_!”” / X https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/2005766469771223106

Meta acquired Manus 👀”” / X https://x.com/scaling01/status/2005768491740360722

18 months ago, I decided to join with @Red_Xiao_ and @peakji on my sofa. No one knew where it would lead. We just kept building, pivoting, and shipping–again and again–until now. Grateful to our team and every user who believed early. Day 1 isn’t over. We’ll keep shipping. https://x.com/hidecloud/status/2005766533910602183

did a project w meta quest 3 where i scanned my studio. its pretty rad, you can walk around a look at stuff and get close. i spefically did not clean the place before we scanned it. works on your phone and on the headset – https://x.com/Casey/status/2002051616455975186

2025 exposed 3 uncomfortable truths about open-source AI: 1. Leadership requires sustained commitment E.g., Meta’s wavering on Llama 4 and Behemoth created an opening that Chinese rivals filled. You can’t dominate open source part-time or as a hedge 2. “Open” now exists on a https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/2001769019096056302

AI needs to stop memorizing everything in model weights and start “seeing” like a human That’s what it’ll take to move beyond chatbots and into the physical world, believes @shawnshenjx, founder of @memories_ai and former Meta Reality Labs researcher In this interview, we talk https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/2003530423708831788

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