Manus AI acquired by Meta for $2B — launches desktop app to compete with OpenClaw

Meta acquired Manus for $2B on Dec 29 2025. Manus launched My Computer desktop app March 18 2026 bringing AI agent onto personal laptops. Chinese officials investigating for tech control violations. Every major AI lab scrambled to ship competitor.

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A distributed runtime that replaces the OpenClaw Conductor bottleneck with a peer-to-peer agent mesh that scales horizontally

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Enterprise teams running OpenClaw hit a wall the moment they need more than a handful of concurrent agents. The Conductor Agent is a single point of contention that serializes all task routing, turning what should be parallel execution into a queue. With 500K+ OpenClaw instances deployed and companies like NVIDIA, Cisco, and AWS building enterprise wrappers around it, nobody has solved the core scaling problem. This tool replaces the Conductor with a distributed mesh of lightweight coordinators that shard work by project scope, letting enterprises run hundreds of agents without a central chokepoint.

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