Manus AI

also referred to as: manus

34 statements across 10 episodes · 20 bullish · 4 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Mar 12, 2025 by Min Choi · said 85 times in 23 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Everything said about Manus AI, oldest first

Mar 12, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Choi: Manus AI Went Viral in the US Two Days Ago
“They actually launched like six days ago, but it didn't like go viral until like two days ago, basically. So when it came over to U S and people in the U S start to get access to it, and that's when it started to get like real traction.”
Min Choi Mar 12, 2025 ▶ 51:32 Manus AI replaces your AI tech stack? (Full Demo)
Mar 12, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Choi: AI-Generated Code Should Only Run in Sandboxes, Not Locally
“I don't download this stuff into my local computer. I have a, I just create like a virtual sandbox on the cloud and then I run it there just in case as well.”
Min Choi Mar 12, 2025 ▶ 55:42 Manus AI replaces your AI tech stack? (Full Demo)
Mar 12, 2025 positive
Opinion
Isenberg: Manus AI Is the Closest Thing to AGI Seen Yet
“Overall my take on this is, Min, honestly, is that it's, yeah, it is the closest thing I've seen to AGI yet, and it seems like it's close. It's not there yet.”
Greg Isenberg Mar 12, 2025 ▶ 1:01:25 Manus AI replaces your AI tech stack? (Full Demo)
Mar 12, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Choi: Manus AI operates as a multi-agent system with planners and executors
“Manus is sort of a multi-agent Under the hood. And it's got, like, planner, executor, that type of thing.”
Min Choi Mar 12, 2025 ▶ 6:33 Manus AI replaces your AI tech stack? (Full Demo)
Mar 12, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Min Choi: Manus AI retains progress across sandbox resets
“The cool thing is that it remembers where it left off.”
Min Choi Mar 12, 2025 ▶ 31:21 Manus AI replaces your AI tech stack? (Full Demo)
Mar 12, 2025 negative
Opinion
Choi: Manus AI struggles with complex applications like DocuSign
“The, as you get more complex like DocuSign and stuff like it does have its challenges”
Min Choi Mar 12, 2025 ▶ 53:23 Manus AI replaces your AI tech stack? (Full Demo)
Mar 12, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Choi: Manus AI Generates Project Architecture Without Requiring Boilerplate Templates
“Another cool thing about this is that you don't have to have a Like a project structure as you see on other tools, like where, you know, people say, go clone this, you know, template, you know, this boilerplate code, and you can use that to build your app and …”
Min Choi Mar 12, 2025 ▶ 26:01 Manus AI replaces your AI tech stack? (Full Demo)
Mar 12, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Choi: Manus AI relies on browser automation tooling like Puppeteer
“It's using a tool called Abiligus Pucketeer which is like an automation tool. So it's, it automates browser tasks. It's a it's a tool that's been around for a while in test automation world so, and it's using that to do a lot of these things.”
Min Choi Mar 12, 2025 ▶ 20:13 Manus AI replaces your AI tech stack? (Full Demo)
Mar 12, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Min Choi: Manus AI lets users interrupt and readjust planning mid-execution
“Yeah, this is probably the one of the coolest feature that I've noticed on this particular product is that I can interrupt it in between without it, like, you know, stopping its work that it's going to try to as you see here, it's going to say, I understand yo…”
Min Choi Mar 12, 2025 ▶ 14:14 Manus AI replaces your AI tech stack? (Full Demo)
Mar 12, 2025 positive
Opinion
Choi: Manus AI excels at research, simple games, and landing pages
“The research one works really well, obviously. You know, you expect that to work well. Simple games work well landing pages work well. And I think that's sort of the ones that have been very successful with Manus AI so far.”
Min Choi Mar 12, 2025 ▶ 52:27 Manus AI replaces your AI tech stack? (Full Demo)
Mar 12, 2025 negative
Opinion
Min Choi: Manus AI is trying to do too much and hasn't solved deployment
“Manus has to work on their deployment process as well. So I think they're just trying to do too much. I think that's part of the problem is they're trying to have all of this kind of package it, like all this services and products are kind of packaged into thi…”
Min Choi Mar 12, 2025 ▶ 47:42 Manus AI replaces your AI tech stack? (Full Demo)
Mar 12, 2025 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Choi: Manus AI restricts beta users to 10 requests or sessions daily
“There is a, I believe there's a 10 request or 10 sessions limit in the day.”
Min Choi Mar 12, 2025 ▶ 57:12 Manus AI replaces your AI tech stack? (Full Demo)
Mar 12, 2025 negative
Opinion
Choi: Long-context degradation is Manus AI's biggest pre-launch issue
“And I think that this is probably the biggest issue that Manus AI team needs to probably address before it goes it goes live. Cause I think that a lot of people are going to run into this similar issues, especially power user like me, I'm gonna, you know, keep…”
Min Choi Mar 12, 2025 ▶ 45:01 Manus AI replaces your AI tech stack? (Full Demo)
Mar 12, 2025 positive
Opinion
Choi: Manus AI is an agent orchestration framework, not a Claude wrapper
“There was a lot of meme going around talking about how, yeah, this is just a wrapper and et cetera. That may be very oversimplifying it. I think what they've done is create like a whole framework under the hood. I believe is that they got a, you know, army of …”
Min Choi Mar 12, 2025 ▶ 21:42 Manus AI replaces your AI tech stack? (Full Demo)
Mar 12, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Choi: Manus AI autonomously browses, researches, plans, and executes beyond coding
“This is a little bit different because it does more than just coding. It actually does the research. It actually goes to the browser, and it actually catches captures the information from there directly, and then it takes all that context into its planning, an…”
Min Choi Mar 12, 2025 ▶ 10:40 Manus AI replaces your AI tech stack? (Full Demo)
Mar 12, 2025 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Choi: Users Can Bypass Manus AI Session Limits Using Open Threads
“When you reach a maximum limit, just a different session and it will, you can tell to do something else.”
Min Choi Mar 12, 2025 ▶ 57:39 Manus AI replaces your AI tech stack? (Full Demo)
Mar 12, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Choi: Manus AI deploys apps directly to subdomains on its domain
“What that's gonna do is, it's got its own public, like, similar to what, like, Bercel rep lit has it's got its own little deployable website, and it's gonna give you a subdomain with their primary domain attached to it so you can actually see the website in ac…”
Min Choi Mar 12, 2025 ▶ 32:53 Manus AI replaces your AI tech stack? (Full Demo)
Mar 12, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Choi: Multiple open-source projects are already replicating Manus AI
“And I know there are already a several open source project that popped up that builds around what Manus has done.”
Min Choi Mar 12, 2025 ▶ 29:01 Manus AI replaces your AI tech stack? (Full Demo)
Mar 12, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Choi: Manus AI Prompts Users for Help to Bypass CAPTCHAs
“I did, like, run into one interesting thing before was that it got stuck on, like, captchas and stuff, and I thought that was kind of funny, and it wanted me to, like, kind of intervene and, like, do something with it. So it has some sort of the human in the l…”
Min Choi Mar 12, 2025 ▶ 7:56 Manus AI replaces your AI tech stack? (Full Demo)
Mar 24, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wilkinson: Manus AI accurately ranked 50 job applicants in 30 minutes
“I took all those emails, I exported them out of Gmail as a zip and I uploaded 50 candidates to Manus. And then it just spent 30 minutes scoring them all based on what I needed. And it was like, these are the best three people. And then I just focused on those …”
Andrew Wilkinson Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 26:06 If I wanted to build $1M+ AI startup in 2025, I'd do this
Mar 26, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Isenberg: AI agents like Manus can replace six-figure investment banking analysts
“You know, at JP Morgan, you're paying people hundreds of thousands of dollars to do this, and look, you know, look what's happening.”
Greg Isenberg Mar 26, 2025 ▶ 7:47 I challenged Manus AI to find $1M+ AI Startup Ideas - It Actually Delivered
Mar 26, 2025 neutral
Insight
Isenberg: Manus AI cannot build a $1M business without precise human prompting
“You can't rely on Manus to basically say, hey, build me a million dollar business and just like say, go wild. You do have to do the right prompts here.”
Greg Isenberg Mar 26, 2025 ▶ 16:31 I challenged Manus AI to find $1M+ AI Startup Ideas - It Actually Delivered
Mar 26, 2025 neutral
Insight
Isenberg: Current AI agents act like junior employees requiring active human management
“It does, it really does feel like an AI employee, but it's kind of like when you have a, you know, junior-ish employee you do have to manage them, mentor them, and get them to be smart.”
Greg Isenberg Mar 26, 2025 ▶ 39:43 I challenged Manus AI to find $1M+ AI Startup Ideas - It Actually Delivered
Mar 26, 2025 positive
Opinion
Isenberg: Manus AI feels more powerful than ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude
“What are you noticing about Manus is it feels like just a little more horsepower than chat GPT, a little more horsepower than perplexity, a little more horsepower than Claude. So it's because of this like multi-agent browsing sort of capabilities, I think”
Greg Isenberg Mar 26, 2025 ▶ 9:40 I challenged Manus AI to find $1M+ AI Startup Ideas - It Actually Delivered
Mar 26, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Isenberg: Complex research prompts in Manus AI take up to 15 minutes
“So what I've noticed about Madness is, if you want to do a prompt like this, it's going to take 10 to 15 minutes. So just so you know, like, it's not going to take a minute or 30 seconds. Like, this generally takes 10 to 15 minutes.”
Greg Isenberg Mar 26, 2025 ▶ 4:58 I challenged Manus AI to find $1M+ AI Startup Ideas - It Actually Delivered
Mar 26, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Isenberg: Manus AI lets users manually control its agent browser sessions
“There is a button that if you wanted, you can take control of Madness, and you can actually use Madness's computer.”
Greg Isenberg Mar 26, 2025 ▶ 4:49 I challenged Manus AI to find $1M+ AI Startup Ideas - It Actually Delivered
Mar 26, 2025 positive
Insight
Isenberg: AI agents can replace expensive specialized teams tracking regulatory changes
“What used to cost a lot of money to go in you know, hire a team, specialized team who understands all these regulatory changes. Now you can just use something like Manus to actually go and figure all these stuff, this stuff out.”
Greg Isenberg Mar 26, 2025 ▶ 19:10 I challenged Manus AI to find $1M+ AI Startup Ideas - It Actually Delivered
Apr 30, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Isenberg: AI agent Manus operates as a McKinsey-level analyst
“You know, it's a designer, it's a strategist, it's a McKinsey level analyst.”
Greg Isenberg Apr 30, 2025 ▶ 7:42 How I use AI agents to make money (Vibe Marketing Tutorial)
Jun 16, 2025 positive
Opinion
Isenberg: Perplexity Labs presents arbitrage opportunities by outperforming Manus
“And I think there's probably some arbitrage opportunities because there's probably some things that this is doing better than, you know, Manus and other things.”
Greg Isenberg Jun 16, 2025 ▶ 28:35 Perplexity's new AI agents are INSANE
Jun 25, 2025 positive
Opinion
Isenberg: GenSpark is not a ChatGPT killer, but a valuable tool addition
“My gut take on GenSpark is, you know, is it the madness killer? Is it the ChatDBT killer? No. But is it interesting and something that you want to put as a part of, like, your cocktail of different tools that you're using to get a diverse opinion on a particul…”
Greg Isenberg Jun 25, 2025 ▶ 24:06 Genspark vs ChatGPT, my brutally honest review
Jul 14, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Within six months, people will wonder why they ever discussed Manus AI
“I think for, as of recording this, it's underrated, but we're gonna look back on this video in six months and be like, Why were we talking about madness?”
Greg Isenberg Jul 14, 2025 ▶ 28:12 I Tested EVERY Hyped AI Tool - I ONLY Kept Using These
Oct 15, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Isenberg: GenSpark costs $20 a month, uses fewer tokens than Manus
“GenSpark is kind of, you know, from a pricing perspective, it's kind of like a cheaper Manus. Like, I think it's like 20 bucks a month or something. And you know, it just eats up a lot less tokens than a Manus”
Greg Isenberg Oct 15, 2025 ▶ 11:27 Genspark's Super AI Agent is INSANE
Feb 27, 2026 positive
Opinion
Isenberg: Manus is underrated as an AI platform
“Manus is a really good job at that. And I actually think Manus is just like underrated as a platform.”
Greg Isenberg Feb 27, 2026 ▶ 20:04 What is Perplexity Computer?
Apr 29, 2026 positive
Opinion
Liu: Manus was the pioneering autonomous AI agent before OpenClaw
“At least when Manus first came out, it's truly groundbreaking, right? Like it was the first kind of real, like, holy crap, like YOLO agent, like look at everything it did. Kind of, like, before even OpenClaw, right? Long before OpenClaw. And so I think they we…”
Howie Liu Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 29:49 Making $$ with AI Agents
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