Mar 12, 2025 11:40:00

Manus AI Forms Strategic Partnership with Alibaba's 'Qwen' Development Team to Collaborate on Developing More Creative AI Agents

Manus AI, a Chinese company that developed the general-purpose AI agent 'Manus,' which is said to have capabilities that exceed those of OpenAI's latest tool 'deep research,' has announced a strategic partnership with the '

Qwen ' development team of Alibaba, another major Chinese AI company.

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According to the announcement, the two companies will work together to develop more creative AI agents for Chinese users. In the future, they plan to use Qwen's open source model and computing platform to realize the full functionality of Manus.

Manus is an 'autonomous AI agent' released by Manus AI. In the GAIA benchmark for large-scale language models (LLM), it outperforms OpenAI's agent 'deep research.'

Chinese startup announces 'Manus', an AI agent that claims to surpass OpenAI's deep research - GIGAZINE

Alibaba, on the other hand, has also been working on AI and LLM for some time, releasing 'Qwen2.5-Max' and the open source AI model 'QWQ-32B' in 2025.

Chinese IT giant Alibaba releases 'Qwen2.5-Max', an AI model with higher performance than GPT-4o and DeepSeek-V3 - GIGAZINE

Qwen releases open source AI model 'QWQ-32B' that achieves performance almost on par with DeepSeek, and a demo page that anyone can run for free is also available - GIGAZINE