{"id":983198,"date":"2026-01-03T11:45:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T06:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=983198"},"modified":"2026-01-03T11:45:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T06:15:31","slug":"meta-buys-ai-startup-manus-makes-clarification-on-its-chinese-connection-says-there-will-be-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/03\/meta-buys-ai-startup-manus-makes-clarification-on-its-chinese-connection-says-there-will-be-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta buys AI startup Manus, makes clarification on its &#8216;Chinese connection&#8217;; says: There will be no &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook-parent Meta recently announced acquisition of Chinese-founded Artificial Intelligence (AI) startup Manus. Mark Zuckerberg-owned company did not disclose financial terms of the transaction, but a source with direct knowledge of the matter said that the deal values the Singapore-based company between $2 billion and $3 billion. Manus is backed by its parent Beijing-based Butterfly Effect Technology, and raised $75 million this year at a valuation of around $500 million. Its investors also include HSG, formerly known as Sequoia Capital China, ZhenFund and internet giant Tencent Holdings. Manus had an annual revenue run rate of $125 million earlier this year from selling its AI agent to businesses via subscriptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook-parent Meta recently announced acquisition of Chinese-founded Artificial Intelligence (AI) startup Manus. Mark Zuckerberg-owned company did not disclose financial terms of the transaction, but a source with direct knowledge of the matter said that the deal values the Singapore-based company between $2 billion and $3 billion. Manus is backed by its parent Beijing-based Butterfly Effect Technology, and raised $75 million this year at a valuation of around $500 million. Its investors also include HSG, formerly known as Sequoia Capital China, ZhenFund and internet giant Tencent Holdings. Manus had an annual revenue run rate of $125 million earlier this year from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983198","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}