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The US is reviewing Benchmark’s investment into Chinese AI startup Manus
Manus AI is one of the hottest AI agent startups around, recently raising $75 million at a half-billion dollar valuation in a round led by Benchmark. But
Benchmark’s lawyers cleared the investment because Manus isn’t technically developing its own AI models, but is instead a “wrapper” around existing ones, Semafor reported. (That’s a common structure used by Chinese companies, like Alibaba, to access foreign capital.) Benchmark has attracted criticism for its Manus investment from Founders Fund partner Delian Asparouhov, who posted on X “wow, actions have consequences”?
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