December 30th message, todayMeta Billions of dollarsAcquisitionChina AI Founder, AI Agent Manus The development of the butterfly effect, both of which issued civil declarations. This is the third major acquisition since Meta was founded, after whatsApp and Scale AI。
When the deal is completed, the butterfly effect will remain independent and the founder, Xiao Hong, will be Vice President of Meta。
It was also reported in Late Post that the acquisition negotiations were concluded quickly within more than 10 days. Before Meta proposed the acquisition, the butterfly effect was making a new round of financing with a $2 billion valuation. According to Liu Won, the speed of the negotiations raised a question as to whether it was a fake offer。
In the end, the terms and vision of the founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg inspired the founding team, and Zuckerberg himself and many of his executives were faithful users of Manus。
This acquisition was an important step forward in Meta’s “super smart” strategy. In an open letter in July this year, Zuckerberg stated that Meta had a huge infrastructure and professional capacity and was willing and able to move new technologies to billions of users。
During the same period, Meta offered top AI researchers a multi-billion-dollar annual salary and reorganized the AI team。
The butterfly effect was established in 2022 and its founder, Xiao Hong, graduated from the China-China University of Science and Technology, where he developed a micro-intelligence public layout tool to accompany the company micro-intelligence plugin。
The company ' s first product is the browser AI Plugin Monica, which provides large model functions such as chatting, searching, writing, etc., and is one of the few AI products in China that is profitable. At the beginning of 2024, byte beats offered $30 million for the butterfly effect。
In 2024, post-90 successive entrepreneurs joined the butterfly effect with product manager Zhang Tao to develop Manus. The product, which came online in March this year, has the capability to deploy multi-tools to address complex issues, prompting both medium and outside attention. In mid-December, Manus announced a $100 million breakthrough in its annual recurrent income (ARR)。
Prior to the takeover, four rounds of financing had been completed for the butterfly effect, with investments from the genuine capital fund, Redwood China, Tent, Benchmark Capital and several Chinese and American technology entrepreneurs。
The managing partner of the Janga Foundation, Dyyunsen, has stated that Manus has become the symbol of a new generation of Chinese entrepreneurship, “no relationship, no seniority, no competition on the global stage”。