Manus Recent withdrawalsChinese marketThe official explanation of the reason is mainly based on the adjustment of operation efficiency and internationalization layout.
On July 19th, Manus co-founder Ji Yichao posted a long blog to review in depth the technical aspects of the company since its inception. Agent(Intelligent body) development and training lessons learned. According to Yichao Ji, the reason why the Manus team chose "shell" instead of self-developed large models was based on the bitter lessons learned from the previous venture, and decided to do "contextual engineering" based on open source or commercial large models to build intelligences. However, this process is not simple, the team went through 4 times of intelligent body framework adjustment before realizing the local optimal solution.
By looking back at the entrepreneurial journey of the past few months, Ji Yichao summarized a series of experiences for entrepreneurs in the intelligent body track. He pointed out that the future of AI intelligent bodies lies in contextual design, rather than simply competing in modeling capabilities.
It is worth noting that Ji Yichao's long article is mainly a technical review and discussion, but did not directly respond to market concerns about layoffs, relocation to Singapore, withdrawal from the Chinese market and other topics.