{"id":53253,"date":"2026-05-22T12:40:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T04:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=53253"},"modified":"2026-05-22T12:40:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T04:40:39","slug":"%e6%b6%88%e6%81%af%e7%a7%b0-manus-%e5%88%9b%e5%a7%8b%e4%ba%ba%e8%82%96%e5%bc%98%e3%80%81%e5%ad%a3%e9%80%b8%e8%b6%85%e3%80%81%e5%bc%a0%e6%b6%9b%e8%80%83%e8%99%91%e8%9e%8d%e8%b5%84-10-%e4%ba%bf%e7%be%8e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/53253.html","title":{"rendered":"According to reports, the founder of Manus, Shaw Hong, Qianxi, and Zhang Tao consider financing a $1 billion buy-back, follow-up or go to port IPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 22, according to Bloomberg yesterday<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/manus\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [Manus]]\" target=\"_blank\" >Manus<\/a> The founders, Xiao Hong, and Zhang Tao are considering repurchase of the company from external investors for approximately $1 billion (note: the current exchange rate is approximately RMB 68.11 billion)\u3002<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53254\" title=\"31c90b7cj00tff8yg000ud0014,000iom\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/31c90b7cj00tff8yg000ud0014000iom.jpg\" alt=\"31c90b7cj00tff8yg000ud0014,000iom\" width=\"1440\" height=\"672\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to sources, the three founders are discussing a new round of financing, with a target valuation at least close to the $2 billion (current exchange rate of approximately RMB 136.2.2 billion) that Meta acquired Manus\u3002<strong>If funding gaps remain<\/strong>,<strong>The start-up team will probably pay for the difference<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the buy-back program may transform Manus into a joint venture<strong>It's possible that the company might end up on the market <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/ipo\" title=\"_OTHER ORGANISER\" target=\"_blank\" >IPO<\/a>(First Public Appeal Unit)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>According to 1AI last month, the Office of the Foreign Investment Security Review Mechanism (the National Development and Reform Commission) has made a statutory anti-investment decision on the acquisition of Manus projects by foreign investors<strong>Asking the party to cancel the acquisition<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In December last year, Meta announced its agreement to acquire the butterfly effect of the AI smart Manus parent company (which is based in Singapore) and to host AI smart body products for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), with a reported offer of up to $2 billion (the current exchange rate is approximately RMB 136.2.2 billion)\u3002<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 22, according to Bloomberg yesterday, the founders of Manus, Xiaohong, Qianxiang, and Zhang Tao are considering raising about $1 billion from outside investors (note: the current exchange rate is about $6,811 million) to buy back the company. According to sources, the three founders are discussing a new round of financing, with a target valuation at least close to the $2 billion (current exchange rate of approximately RMB 136.2.2 billion) that Meta acquired Manus. If there is still a shortfall in funding, the founding team may also make up for the difference. At the same time, the buy-back scheme may transform Manus into a joint venture and the company may eventually travel to the IPO (first public equity) market. According to 1AI last month, the Foreign Investment Safety Reviewer<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[1331,5895],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-53253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ipo","tag-manus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53253","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=53253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53253"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=53253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}