March 6, 2025, Beijing — Chinese artificial intelligence leading company Monica today officially announced that its self-developed global first general-purpose AI entity Manus has completed technical verification and initiated commercial deployment. This innovative product, hailed as the "executor of the digital world," is based on the core concept of "hands and mind" (Latin: Mens et Manus). Through a groundbreaking multi-intelligent body architecture and autonomous execution capabilities, it has achieved for the first time a leap for AI from "dialogue interaction" to "task closure," marking a new stage in the "productivity revolution" of artificial intelligence technology.
Disruptive Intelligent Body Architecture
The core breakthrough of Manus lies in its Multiple Agent System. Unlike traditional AI assistants that only provide suggestions or step-by-step guidance, Manus utilizes a cloud-based independent virtual machine environment to decompose user commands into executable subtask chains. It autonomously invokes over 300 types of third-party applications, such as browsers, code editors, and data analysis tools, completing the entire process from information gathering, logical reasoning, to result delivery without the need for human intervention. For example, when a user inputs "analyze the correlation between Tesla's stock price fluctuations and market sentiment over the past year," Manus automatically performs data scraping, model training, and visualization generation, ultimately producing a professional analysis report that includes an interactive dashboard, taking only 1/20 of the time required for manual processing.
In terms of technical performance, Manus topped the charts on the authoritative evaluation platform GAIA (General AI Assistant Benchmark Test) with a 92% success rate for Lv.3 tasks (the highest difficulty level), far surpassing OpenAI DeepResearch (65%). Its core advantages are reflected in three dimensions:
- Task autonomy: Supports asynchronous cloud processing, allowing users to submit tasks and wait offline for results. The system automatically sends completion notifications via email or mobile push notifications;
- Tool integration: Built-in programming language environments such as Python and SQL allow for direct code writing and execution, enabling complex operations like data cleaning and automated testing;
- Continuous evolution capability: Optimizing execution strategies through user behavior data, such as automatically adjusting report formats based on historical preferences (e.g., prioritizing the generation of tables over text).
Market Impact and Future Layout
Since the internal testing began in March 2025, Manus has attracted over 2 million users applying to experience it, with its invitation code once being speculated to a high price of 100,000 yuan on second-hand platforms. Official data shows that the first batch of enterprise users experienced an average efficiency increase of 5 to 8 times after use.
Monica is divided into a Basic version (Starter) and a Professional version (Pro): the Basic version (Starter) costs $39 per month and supports 2 concurrent tasks; the Professional version (Pro) costs $199 per month and can run 5 tasks simultaneously while unlocking high-performance mode. In addition, the team announced a strategic partnership with Alibaba Tongyi Qianwen to optimize Manus performance based on domestic large models and computing power platforms, with plans to launch global commercial use in Q3 2025.
“Manus is not a tool, but a ‘proxy’ for humans in the digital world,” said Xiao Hong, founder of Monica. “We hope to enable everyone to easily complete complex tasks, just like hiring a professional team, through technological innovation, unleashing more creativity.”
About Monica
Monica was established in 2022 and is an innovative company focused on AI Agent technology, with headquarters in Beijing and Wuhan. Its core products include the browser plugin Monica and the general-purpose AI entity Manus, which has served over 5 million users and received investments from institutions such as Sequoia Capital and Hillhouse Capital.