Manus · Butterfly Effect Pte Ltd (Singapore; ex-Monica)
highThe viral general-purpose autonomous agent that plans and executes multi-step tasks in a cloud VM (browsing, code, docs, slides), notable for Wide Research parallel sub-agents and for Meta's $2B acquisition being blocked by China's NDRC in April 2026.
General / computer-useproprietaryfreemium⛨ cloud-remote
Credit-based all-in-one 'AI employee' workspace whose Super Agent mixes multiple frontier models with 80+ tools to produce slides, sheets, sites, and calls, and whose 2026 'Genspark Claw' gives each user a persistent cloud computer commandable from WhatsApp/Telegram/Slack/Teams.
General / computer-useproprietaryfreemium⛨ cloud-remote
Cloud web-agent from DeepMind-alumni startup H Company ($220M seed) that orchestrates sub-agents over its own Holo vision-language action models (92.2% WebVoyager at ~$0.13/task via open-sourced Surfer-H), with Holo 3 in 2026 targeting any-UI enterprise automation.
General / computer-useproprietaryfreemium✓ local models⛨ cloud-remote
Perplexity's Chromium-based agentic browser (free on all four platforms since April 2026) whose sidebar assistant reads pages and tabs and executes web tasks in the user's own browser, extended by 'Personal Computer' on Mac to local file editing, local computer use, and voice orchestration.
General / computer-useproprietaryfreemium