Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A little-known Chinese startup is making waves globally for an impressive new AI product. No, we’re not talking about DeepSeek R1, the AI reasoning model that made waves among Western AI circles earlier this year. Instead, the hot new product du jour is called Manus, and it’s a new AI multipurpose agent — that is, more than an AI model, it’s an interface for controlling multiple models that can go off and, on...