Meta invests $2.5 billion in AI Agent platform Manus

Meta's acquisition of Manus is valued at approximately $2.5 billion, which also includes long-term retention incentives for the core team.

Interestingly, Manus only completed Series B funding in May 2025, led by Benchmark, raising $75 million, with a valuation of just $500 million at the time.

In just half a year, Manus's valuation has directly multiplied several times.

ZhenFund, Sequoia China, Tencent, and other early investors have become the biggest winners, achieving returns of dozens of times.

Manus's main focus is not on chatbots, but on AI Agents that can directly perform tasks:

Conduct research, write code, analyze data, screen resumes—more like "digital employees," charging enterprises via subscription.

Even more astonishingly, since the product launch, it has already achieved annualized revenue of over $100 million.

From this deal, it is clear that:
Big companies are now buying not just "concepts," but AI capabilities that can create value for people.
AI is transforming from a tool into true productivity.