China's Manus AI, a viral autonomous agent developed by Tencent-backed startup The Butterfly Effect, is partnering with Alibaba's Qwen team to create a localized version as it gains global attention and draws comparisons to DeepSeek.

Manus will engage in strategic cooperation with Alibaba’s Qwen team “to meet the needs of Chinese users”, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. The two companies are w

Chinese artificial intelligence start-up Manus AI announced on Tuesday a strategic partnership with the team behind Alibaba's Qwen AI models. The two sides will collaborate based on Qwen's open-source AI models and aim to implement all of Manus' functionalities on China's domestic models and computing platforms,