Published on September 30, 2026 at 07:33 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Manus Meta wanted to acquire Manus, but Beijing decided otherwise. Three months after the breakup, the start-up is launching Cue, a personal-agents app that targets its former acquirer’s brand-new Muse. At the end of December 2025, Meta announced the acquisition of Manus, a fledgling agentic AI startup, for a reported amount of around $2 billion. The Chinese regulator blocked the deal in the spri