{"id":34042,"date":"2025-04-25T14:48:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T06:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=34042"},"modified":"2025-04-25T14:48:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T06:48:52","slug":"%e6%b6%88%e6%81%af%e7%a7%b0-ai-%e6%99%ba%e8%83%bd%e4%bd%93%e5%85%ac%e5%8f%b8-manus-%e8%9e%8d%e8%b5%84-7500-%e4%b8%87%e7%be%8e%e5%85%83%ef%bc%8c%e4%bc%b0%e5%80%bc%e5%a4%a7%e6%b6%a8%e5%9b%9b%e5%80%8d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/34042.html","title":{"rendered":"AI Body Intelligence Company Manus Raises $75 Million, Valuation Quadruples, Says Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 25 (Bloomberg) -- According to Bloomberg, general-purpose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/ai%e6%99%ba%e8%83%bd%e4%bd%93\" title=\"_OTHER ORGANISER\" target=\"_blank\" >AI Agent<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/manus\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [Manus]]\" target=\"_blank\" >Manus<\/a> Butterfly Effect, the Chinese startup behind AI, recently closed a $75 million (note: current exchange rate is about Rs. 547 million) round of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e8%9e%8d%e8%b5%84\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [financing]]\" target=\"_blank\" >Financing<\/a>. The round of financing was led by Benchmark, a leading U.S. venture capital firm, and also attracted participation from existing investors. According to people familiar with the matter, the funding round has boosted Butterfly Effect's valuation to nearly $500 million (RMB 3.646 billion at current exchange rates), a four-fold increase from the previous round.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34043\" title=\"320a5144j00sv9hkg000sd000mt00gfp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/320a5144j00sv9hkg000sd000mt00gfp.jpg\" alt=\"320a5144j00sv9hkg000sd000mt00gfp\" width=\"821\" height=\"591\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Butterfly Effect reportedly plans to use the funding to accelerate its globalization, targeting markets including the U.S., Japan, and the Middle East. The company's Manus AI program has been attracting attention since it launched a general-purpose AI intelligence in March this year. The AI can efficiently perform tasks such as resume screening, travel planning, and stock analysis, and outperforms OpenAI's recently launched Deep Research tool on a number of metrics.<\/p>\n<p>To further expand its business, Butterfly Effect also recently launched a subscription service with a minimum subscription price of $39 per month (RMB 284 at current exchange rates). The company has previously raised more than $100 million (RMB 729 million at current exchange rates) from investors including Tencent, Zhenge Capital and HSG.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 25 (Bloomberg) -- Butterfly Effect, the Chinese startup behind general-purpose AI intelligence Manus AI, recently closed a $75 million (note: the current exchange rate is about 547 million yuan) round of funding, Bloomberg reported. The round was led by Benchmark, a leading U.S. venture capital firm, and attracted participation from existing investors. According to people familiar with the matter, the round of financing has caused Butterfly Effect's valuation to soar to nearly 500 million U.S. dollars (the current exchange rate is about 3.646 billion yuan), a four-fold increase compared with the previous round. Butterfly Effect reportedly plans to use the funding to accelerate its globalization, targeting markets including the US, Japan, and the Middle East. The company's Manus AI program has been in operation since March of this year.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[786,5895,421],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-34042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ai","tag-manus","tag-421"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34042"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=34042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}