{"id":982815,"date":"2025-12-31T08:54:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T03:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=982815"},"modified":"2025-12-31T09:50:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T04:20:23","slug":"meta-buys-ai-startup-manus-to-boost-autonomous-agents-push-under-mark-zuckerberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/31\/meta-buys-ai-startup-manus-to-boost-autonomous-agents-push-under-mark-zuckerberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta buys AI startup Manus to boost autonomous agents push under Mark Zuckerberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms is acquiring artificial intelligence start-up Manus, which is working on AI agents capable of making decisions and executing tasks autonomously. The acquisition, reportedly valued between $2 billion and $3 billion, is a rare example of a US technology group buying an AI platform with Chinese roots. <\/p>\n<p>Manus, which originally had its headquarters in China but moved to Singapore to shield itself from ongoing US-China tensions, is one of the \u201cleading autonomous general-purpose agents\u201d, with tools that can perform market research, coding and data analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms is acquiring artificial intelligence start-up Manus, which is working on AI agents capable of making decisions and executing tasks autonomously. The acquisition, reportedly valued between $2 billion and $3 billion, is a rare example of a US technology group buying an AI platform with Chinese roots. Manus, which originally had its headquarters in China but moved to Singapore to shield itself from ongoing US-China tensions, is one of the \u201cleading autonomous general-purpose agents\u201d, with tools that can perform market research, coding and data analysis.<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982815","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=982815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}