{"id":1020091,"date":"2026-07-11T08:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T02:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020091"},"modified":"2026-07-11T08:37:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:07:22","slug":"tencent-in-talks-to-become-ai-startup-manus-largest-shareholder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/11\/tencent-in-talks-to-become-ai-startup-manus-largest-shareholder\/","title":{"rendered":"Tencent in talks to become AI startup Manus&#8217; largest shareholder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese gaming \u200cand internet company \u2060Tencent \u2060is in talks to become \u200bManus&#8217; largest shareholder as investors seek alternatives after \u200bBeijing ordered Meta to unwind its $2 billion acquisition of the AI startup, \u200btwo people with \u2060knowledge of \u200cthe matter said \u200bon \u200bFriday. <\/p>\n<p>The Financial Times first \u2060reported Tencent&#8217;s talks earlier in the day. <\/p>\n<p>Tencent, together with Manus&#8217; original investors, including ZhenFund and HSG, are planning to buy the company back from Meta for no less than $2 billion, \u200csaid one of the sources and a third person briefed on the \u2060matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese gaming \u200cand internet company \u2060Tencent \u2060is in talks to become \u200bManus&#8217; largest shareholder as investors seek alternatives after \u200bBeijing ordered Meta to unwind its $2 billion acquisition of the AI startup, \u200btwo people with \u2060knowledge of \u200cthe matter said \u200bon \u200bFriday. The Financial Times first \u2060reported Tencent&#8217;s talks earlier in the day. Tencent, together with Manus&#8217; original investors, including ZhenFund and HSG, are planning to buy the company back from Meta for no less than $2 billion, \u200csaid one of the sources and a third person briefed on the \u2060matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020123,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020091\/revisions\/1020123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}