{"id":982572,"date":"2025-12-30T08:44:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T03:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=982572"},"modified":"2025-12-30T09:10:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T03:40:33","slug":"meta-acquires-chinese-ai-startup-manus-what-it-means-for-whatsapp-instagram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/30\/meta-acquires-chinese-ai-startup-manus-what-it-means-for-whatsapp-instagram\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta acquires Chinese AI startup Manus \u2013  What it means for WhatsApp, Instagram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta, the company behind Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has bought Manus, a Singapore-based startup that makes a popular artificial intelligence (AI) agent. This move comes as Meta pushes to turn its big AI investments into real business results. The financial terms of the deal were not shared. <\/p>\n<p>The acquisition includes Manus\u2019s technology and leadership team. Meta has not revealed exactly where the new team will fit in the company. Alexandr Wang, Meta\u2019s Chief AI Officer, welcomed Manus\u2019s team on X, and Manus co-founder and CEO Xiao Hong, said the deal will help his company expand its AI agents to a larger audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta, the company behind Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has bought Manus, a Singapore-based startup that makes a popular artificial intelligence (AI) agent. This move comes as Meta pushes to turn its big AI investments into real business results. The financial terms of the deal were not shared. The acquisition includes Manus\u2019s technology and leadership team. Meta has not revealed exactly where the new team will fit in the company. Alexandr Wang, Meta\u2019s Chief AI Officer, welcomed Manus\u2019s team on X, and Manus co-founder and CEO Xiao Hong, said the deal will help his company expand its AI agents to a [&hellip;]<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982572","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=982572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}