Chinese startup Manus aiIt works in the creation of tools related to AI agents, has collected $ 75 million in a financing round led by Benchmark to an assessment of approximately $ 500 million, According to Bloomberg.
The company will use money to expand to new markets, including the United States, Japan and the Middle East, Bloomberg said, citing people familiar with the matter.
The Bloomberg report suggests that the fresh round has quintuated the assessment of Manus, which previously raised somewhere north of $ 10 million sponsors, including Tencent and HSG (previously Chinese Sequoia).
Manus entered the center of attention when the company was launched a demonstration of a general agent of AI That could complete several tasks in March. (In Techcrucnh tests, it did not work as well as announced). The company then launched Subscription plans paid Cost between $ 39 per month and $ 199 per month.