Some early users were enthusiastic about the product’s capabilities; others complained it took too long and crashed.

Manus wasn’t developed entirely from scratch. According to reports on social media, the platform uses a combination of existing and fine-tuned AI models, including Anthropic’s Claude and Alibaba’s Qwen, to perform tasks such as drafting research reports and analyzing financial filings.

Manus AI is reportedly the world's first fully autonomous AI agent. But what does that mean? And what is it capable of?