Tao Zhang

Tao Zhang is a Chinese AI entrepreneur and the co-founder of Manus, a general-purpose AI agent that launched in March 2025 . He was previously a product partner at Monica.im, where he introduced himself in a February 2025 article discussing DeepSeek R1's impact . In late 2025, he joined a ZhenFund-hosted campus tour at Tsinghua University alongside ZhenFund managing partner Dai Yusen, Kimi president Zhang Yutong, and serial entrepreneur Zhang Huaiting, where he publicly addressed the controversy around Manus's product launch video for the first time . Elsewhere's December 2025 coverage of that event, through ZhenFund partner Liu Yuan's account, described Zhang's reflection on the experience as feeling like "growing up overnight" .