Manus partners with Alibaba Qwen to increase AI capabilities

Manus announced on March 11 a strategic partnership to integrate all Manus features into Chinese AI models, computing platforms and Qwen open-source models. Ji Yichao, the founder of Manus, revealed recently that its product uses various fine-tuned Qwen models. Alibaba confirmed the collaboration and stated its commitment to work with global AI innovators. Manus, the startup Monica’s first AI agent, has received a lot of attention on social media. Alibaba Cloud had released the QwQ 32B inference model earlier, on 6 March. Alibaba Cloud is planning to combine powerful foundational models and reinforcement learning (RL) powered with large-scale computing resources to achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI).[iThome (in Chinese)