Manus Drops $2B Round, Joins Meta's AI Innovation Quest

Manus was previously in the process of raising fresh funding at a $2 billion valuation, but the "vision offered by Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg quickly swayed" the team. Manus is positioned as a general-purpose AI agent designed to execute work rather than simply generate responses. It can independently research topics by pulling from multiple online sources, navigate websites to complete tasks end-to-end, and analyse structured data from Excel and CSV files.

It also supports image generation, visual assets, and other structured outputs within larger workflows and integrates with tools, including Google Chrome, Drive, Gmail, Notion, and Google Calendar. On benchmarks such as Meta's Remote Labour Index, which measures automation of remote work, Manus ranked first, outperforming xAI's Grok 4, GPT-5, ChatGPT Agent, and Gemini 2.5 Pro, although the benchmark has not been updated to reflect newer model releases. Earlier this year, Manus announced it had crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue just eight months after launch, placing it among the fastest-growing AI startups alongside Lovable, Replit, and Cursor.