Manus AI
also referred to as: manus
5 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Apr 6, 2025 by Dwarkesh Patel · said 50 times in 20 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Jordi Hays (12), John Coogan (6), Tyler Denk (1)
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2026 40 mentions in 16 episodes 3 per episode
- Meta Acquires Manus, Nvidia's $20B Groq deal, Doordash's Reddit Firestorm l Diet TBPN
- China Blocks Meta’s $2B Manus Deal, Meta Bets on Space-Based Solar | Diet TBPN
- Clawdbot’s name change, Meta’s new pricing plan, Tyler’s 21st birthday | Diet TBPN
- The Meta Compute Debate | Diet TBPN
- Trump-Xi Summit, Space Data Center Debate, Inflation Up | Diet TBPN
- Apple’s iPhone Duo, Meta’s Muse AI Agent, Anthropic Researcher Quits Over AI Doom | Diet TBPN
- Zuck’s AI Vision, Celebs Are Dating Private Equity Guys, AI Agent Hacks Gym | Diet TBPN
- Shifts In The Creator Economy, Kylie Jenner x Meta, GPT 5.6 Limited Release | Diet TBPN
- 8 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 10 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
- Building GPUs Is Easier Than You Think | Aaron Ginn on TBPN
- Aidan McLaughlin (OpenAI) On ChatGPT, model welfare, and path to AGI
- Dwarkesh Patel (Dwarkesh Podcast) on The Scaling Hypothesis, AI and China
- Is America Losing the Tech War with China? | Jordan Schnaider on TBPN
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
Everything said about Manus AI, oldest first
Apr 6, 2025 positive
Patel: Manus Is Complementary to US AI Foundation Labs
“Manus seems like in the middle ground here where I wouldn't want to just generally try to harm China by tariffing batteries or cars or something. This is an application of AI and it's complimentary to American AI Foundation Labs because they're using the cloud…”
Jan 16, 2026 neutral
Meta hits $72B in capex and acquires AI startup Manus for $2B
“Meta's been ramping up AI spending on AI, pushing its capital expenditure to seventy-two billion last year with plans to accelerate that spending this year. It's also doled out offers worth tens of millions 1000 of millions of dollars to AI researchers and eng…”
Apr 27, 2026
Apr 27, 2026 neutral
Meta should have used a talent licensing contract to acquire Manus
“It would have been, it probably would have been easier to do something like what grok and Nvidia did or like the windsurf Google thing where like, You're bringing people over with this contract, and then, like, yes, China blocks it, but it's, like, what are th…”