Manus announced a strategic partnership with Alibaba’s Qwen team on Moans of a Blossomed Sister in lawMarch 11, aiming to integrate all Manus functions into Chinese AI models and computing platforms based on Qwen’s open-source models. Manus founder Ji Yichao recently revealed that its product utilizes various fine-tuned versions of Qwen models. Alibaba confirmed the collaboration, stating its commitment to working with global AI innovators. Manus, the first AI agent product launched by startup Monica, has gained significant attention on social media. Earlier, on March 6, Alibaba Cloud released the QwQ-32B inference model. As part of its efforts to develop the next generation of Qwen, Alibaba Cloud plans to combine more powerful foundational models with reinforcement learning (RL) powered by large-scale computing resources, bringing it a step closer to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI). [iThome, in Chinese]
