March 11th.Manus The official microblogging site announced today that it has partnered with AliThousand Questions on TongyiThe team formalized a strategic partnership.The two companies will implement the full functionality of Manus on a homegrown model and arithmetic platform based on the Tongyi Qianqian series of open source models.
Currently, the two technical teams have started close collaboration and are committed to building more creative universal intelligent body products for Chinese users. It is understood that in November 2024, the company completed the A round of financing, led by Tencent and Sequoia China, followed by Zhenge Fund and Wang Huiwen and other investors. Previously, the company had received two rounds of investment in February and August 2023 from Zhenge Fund.
1AI notes that yesterday Manus founder Ji Yichao revealed on social media platforms that the Manus product uses a different fine-tuned model based on Ali's Thousand Questions Big Model (Qwen).
Manus is the first AI Agent product released by startup Monica, which has recently exploded out of the social media ring.