Tao Zhang
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Tao Zhang is the co-founder of Manus, the general-purpose AI agent that launched in March 2025 . He first gained prominence as the founder and CEO of Dianping (大众点评), the Chinese restaurant-review platform whose merger with Meituan created one of China's largest local-services companies . After Dianping, he invested in Tigerobo's angel round alongside Gaorong Capital and Dianliang Fund in 2019 , and later joined Monica.im as product partner before founding Manus . In December 2025, he appeared at a ZhenFund-hosted Tsinghua University event alongside ZhenFund managing partner Dai Yusen and Kimi president Zhang Yutong, where he publicly addressed the controversy around Manus's product-launch video for the first time . He is also a recipient of the 2024 Future Science Prize in Life Sciences for his work on single-atom catalysis, though this appears to reference a different Tao Zhang .
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