China's Manus AI announced on Tuesday a strategic partnership with the team behind tech giant Alibaba's Qwen AI models, a move that could bolster the artificial intelligence start-up's roll-out of what it called the world's first general AI agent.

Alibaba's Qwen (Tongyi Qianwen) and the emerging AI agent Manus have recently announced a strategic partnership, generating buzz across the artificial intelligence sector. This collaboration seeks to combine their expertise in large-scale language models and computational platforms specifically catered to the Chinese market.

China's Manus AI, a viral autonomous agent developed by Tencent-backed startup The Butterfly Effect, is partnering with Alibaba's Qwen team to create a localized version as it gains global attention and draws comparisons to DeepSeek.

Chinese artificial intelligence start-up Manus AI announced on Tuesday a strategic partnership with the team behind Alibaba's Qwen AI models. The two sides will collaborate based on Qwen's open-source AI models and aim to implement all of Manus' functionalities on China's domestic models and computing platforms,

The creator of Chinese general-purpose artificial intelligence (AI) agent Manus is working with Alibaba Group Holding's large language model (LLM) team to develop a Chinese version of the application,

Chinese start-up Manus AI has announced a strategic partnership with the developers behind Alibaba's Qwen AI models, a move aimed at enhancing its newly launched general AI agent. The partnership is expected to boost Manus AI's ability to manage rising user demand and expand its technological capabilities.