Patrick Biddiscombe describes Manus, an open-source AI agent built on Entropic Cloud Sonnet with access to 29 tools that can control browsers and talk to other agents. Someone used it to create an open-source clone of itself on GitHub, and Manus reportedly outperforms OpenAI on a benchmark.
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This is kind of what I started with. So what is Manus? Right, so the founder here confirmed this is true, which is it's built on Entropic Cloud Sonnet, their own foundational model. It has access to 29 tools. So again, think of that as what you're hearing as MCP's Model Context Protocol. It allows you to extend apps and give them tools to use. This one here, browser use, is how it's doing a bunch of the browser control, all open source and then gives gives a little bit around how it communicates with different agents and then like outperforms OpenAI's deep research on a benchmark. And so the thing I want to end with was, okay, well if that stuff, none of it's their tools or apps, it's all kind of open source or available for other folks to use. What this person did was like super smart. They basically said, well, I'll just have Manus create itself. So what is Anus? Anus is basically an open source version of itself. So they've created this agent that you can Go use in GitHub. Now it's created by Cloud 3.7, right? So it's created by the model that it runs itself and it basically just one shotted and rebuilt itself using open source tools.