Peter Wildeford from the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy wrote a good substack post about the recent Manus hype which is in my humble opinion well researched and balanced.  

https://peterwildeford.substack.com/p/being-responsible-with-chinese-ai

I would also recommend following on X the Manus co-founder Yichao 'Peak' Ji who is responding frequently to feedback

https://x.com/peterwildeford
https://x.com/peakji
https://www.iaps.ai/

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