{"id":982857,"date":"2026-01-01T07:22:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T01:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=982857"},"modified":"2026-01-01T07:32:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:02:42","slug":"meta-to-buy-chinese-founded-startup-manus-to-boost-advanced-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/01\/meta-to-buy-chinese-founded-startup-manus-to-boost-advanced-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta to buy Chinese founded startup Manus to boost advanced AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta said on Monday \u2060it would acquire Chinese-founded artificial intelligence startup Manus, as the technology giant accelerates efforts to integrate advanced AI across its platforms. <\/p>\n<p>Financial terms of the transaction were not released, but a source with direct knowledge of the matter said the \u200cdeal values the Singapore-based \u200cfirm at between $2 billion and $3 billion. <\/p>\n<p>Manus did not immediately reply to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta said on Monday \u2060it would acquire Chinese-founded artificial intelligence startup Manus, as the technology giant accelerates efforts to integrate advanced AI across its platforms. Financial terms of the transaction were not released, but a source with direct knowledge of the matter said the \u200cdeal values the Singapore-based \u200cfirm at between $2 billion and $3 billion. Manus did not immediately reply to a request for comment.<\/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-982857","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\/982857","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=982857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}