{"id":157354,"date":"2025-12-30T17:42:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T09:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=157354"},"modified":"2025-12-30T17:42:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T09:42:27","slug":"meta-acquires-chinese-ai-startup-manus-for-billions-in-third-largest-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=157354","title":{"rendered":"Meta Acquires Chinese AI Startup Manus for Billions in Third-Largest Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/technode.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/manus-scaled.png\" alt=\"news image\"><br \/>Meta has reached an exclusive agreement to acquire Butterfly Effect, a Chinese startup and developer of the AI agent Manus, for a multi-billion dollar sum. This transaction ranks as the third-largest acquisition in Meta&rsquo;s history, following WhatsApp and Scale AI. Founded in 2022 by Xiao Hong in Wuhan&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/technode.com\/2025\/12\/30\/meta-acquires-chinese-ai-startup-manus-for-billions-in-third-largest-deal\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#38405;&#35835;&#26356;&#22810;&#65288;Read More&#65289;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta has reached an exclusive agreement to acquire Butt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-localnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/157355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}