Meta’s $2 billion Manus deal pushes away some of startup’s customers, who are 'sad that this has happened’

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When Meta

agreed to spend a reported $2 billion on Manus at the end of last year, the social media giant said it planned to take the startup’s subscription AI agent offering and “scale this service to many more businesses.”

But some existing Manus customers aren’t thrilled with the deal and say they’re now going elsewhere, the latest sign of skepticism towards Meta as it tries to compete with the likes of OpenAI, Google

and Anthropic in the booming artificial intelligence market.