Meta has just spent $2 billion to buy Manus AI, a startup that can take control of your computer

screen and do things for you, similar to how ChatGBTGPT agents and a lot of these other browsers

are being able to accomplish tasks for you that you give it. Now, the thing that's interesting

is meta did not have a player in this space, and there's a bunch of interesting reasons why

they're doing this.

But the controversy is around the fact that Manus has a Chinese background. It was originally started in Beijing and a lot of people have concerns about AI coming out of China. So today on the podcast, we're going to break down all of the concerns, what the company is able to do, who's the winners and losers in this and where we see meta in the future. Before we get into all of that, I wanted to say a big thank you today's sponsor, which is Delve.

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Zuckerberg has struck again. That's the headline over on TechCrunch, I think is hilarious.

But what's interesting here, meta platforms are going to acquire Manus. Now, I mentioned earlier that

this was a company out of China. It's actually technically out of Singapore right now. It was

started in Beijing back in 2022.

And it was originally called Butterfly Effect.

After that, in the middle of 2025, it was moved over to Singapore.

I think a lot of this had to do with the fact that they were trying to raise money.

They were raising money from Americans.

And, you know, spending hundreds of millions of dollars

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