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Manus AI platform launched in preview last week .

It's generating more hype than a Taylor Swift concert, but it's not clear the hype is justified.

The official Discord server for Manus grew to over 138,000 members in just a few days .

Manus uses a combination of existing and fine-tuned AI models to perform tasks.

A widely-shared video showed a desktop program, ostensibly Manus , taking action across multiple smartphone apps.

Ji confirmed that the video wasn’t, in fact, a demo of Manus .

Monica claims it’s working to scale computing capacity and fix issues as they’re reported.

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