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Rowan Cheung

@rowancheung

Mar 7 • 7 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X

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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.

We noticed Manus gaining some traction @TheRundownAI and wrote about it in the newsletter this morning

Shortly after publishing, one of the cofounders reached out with an invitation code. Thanks @peakji!

So I dropped my work for the morning (emails can wait) and tested it out:

@TheRundownAI @peakji For my first test, I asked Manus to create a biography on Rowan Cheung and deploy a website based on that biography

Insanely impressive watching it go through my social channels, browse articles, and deploy the site

And it was 100% accurate, info up to date as of today

@TheRundownAI @peakji Next, I decided to test something a bit more practical: Top rental spots in SF with

- Low crime
- Lots of AI activity
- High density of ambitious young entrepreneurs

I got a full detailed report with 4 options that were spot on (SF locals, feel free to chime in here if not)

@TheRundownAI @peakji Next, I wanted to test how Manus would do very long research tasks

So, I asked it to create an entire course on AI for Content Creation

It took nearly 2 hours to complete, but what I got was an impressive 8-chapter course with tools, use cases, and even prompt examples

@TheRundownAI @peakji It's also not just all hype

On the GAIA benchmark (an AI benchmark designed to test agents), Manus achieved state-of-the-art performance and beats OpenAI's recently launched Deep Research

Manus is only available via invite code right now

This post was NOT sponsored in any way, but @peakji (cofounder @ Manus) gave The Rundown 500 invite codes

Just added it to The Rundown University's perks (which now has $1000+ worth of AI tool savings) university.therundown.ai/c/showcase/exc…

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