Manus Bio
Manus
Manus is an AI agent product developed by Butterfly Effect (蝴蝶效应), the parent company also behind the Monica browser extension, and released on March 6, 2025 . The company was co-founded by Xiao Hong (肖弘, also referred to as "Red") and Zhang Tao, with Peak Ji (季逸超) serving as co-founder and chief scientist . The product drew significant attention at launch, including public praise from Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and coverage in *The Economist* , though it also faced debate about whether its capabilities represented genuine technical breakthrough or effective product packaging . In December 2025, the Manus team joined Meta .
On the investor side, ZhenFund partner Yusen Dai led and was deeply involved in the investment, alongside ZhenFund partner Yuan Liu, who had a roughly decade-long relationship with Xiao Hong dating back to earlier ventures . Xiaosu Technology provides search infrastructure for Manus and similar AI agents .
Notably, the retrieved corpus does not contain substantive information about "Manus Bio" as a distinct biotechnology company; the entity cards and relations mix references to the AI agent company (Manus/Butterfly Effect) with unrelated biotech firms such as LaiMang Bio (莱芒生物) that happen to share partial name similarity.
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