11-03-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
‘Less structure, more intelligence': AI agent Manus draws upbeat reviews of nascent system
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'Got access and it's true … Manus is the most impressive AI tool I've ever tried,' wrote Victor Mustar, head of product at AI and machine-learning developer platform
Hugging Face , in a post over the weekend on
X, formerly Twitter
Mustar prompted Manus to create and display an animated 3D video game in a web browser, using a cross-browser JavaScript library and application programming interface – known as
His prompt: 'code a threejs game where you control a plane'.
That simple prompt shows how AI agents like Manus represent a new avenue for innovation, compared with chatbots and large language models (LLMs) – the technology underpinning
generative AI assistants like
ChatGPT
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AI agents are programs that are capable of autonomously performing tasks on behalf of a user or another system. Essentially, these agents create a plan of specific tasks and subtasks to complete a goal using its available resources.