Chinese AI firms and chipmakers have become increasingly open to making their technology secrets available to all-comers.
James Ng, the Regional Head for China Applications Engineering at Synopsys, delivers a presentation during the RISC-V Summit in Hangzhou, China, August 21, 2024. Credit: RISC-V International
ManusAI this week became the latest little-known Chinese AI firm to emerge with surprisingly advanced capabilities. Yet whether or not its rise is truly another ‘DeepSeek moment,’ the two companies will soon have at least one thing in common: how easily anyone can see and use the technology behind their sudden success.
An example use case of the Manus AI agent.
“We'll be open-sourcing quite a few good things in the near future,” ManusAI’s co-founder Ji Yichao w
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