Manus 2.0 and Cue give AI agents their own email, phone and wallet

Manus, the AI agent startup founded in China and now based in Singapore, launched Manus 2.0 on Monday. It also released Cue, a standalone app for personal AI agents. In Cue, each agent gets its own email address, phone number, wallet and computer, the company wrote in a blog post .

“Manus 2.0 is not a version update. It’s a new architecture, new products, and new capabilities,” Manus wrote.

The launch comes five months after Beijing ordered Meta to cancel its $2bn deal for the startup, as Micah Barkley reported for Bloomberg . Meta had agreed to buy Manus at the end of 2025.

Cue runs on the same infrastructure as Manus. Its agents can send messages and pay within a budget the user sets, according to Manus. Each can finish a task on its own machine. They can also take the user’s calls and leave a summary in the app.

Several agents can share a group chat with a common goal and hand work to each other. In the company’s example, one agent researches venues for a New York launch. Another makes a shortlist and a third drafts the deck. At a restaurant, a user can scan the QR code and have an agent order or hold a place in line.

Cue is in early access and free to use with an invite code. It works on the web, desktop and mobile, with iOS to follow after App Store review, Manus said.

The app arrives as Meta pushes its own personal agent. Meta launched Muse earlier this month, and it quickly climbed to the top of app store charts, Bloomberg reported.

Manus 2.0 runs on Cascade, the company’s new in-house system for running its agents. It brings in specialised tools only when a project needs them. In one tested setup, Cascade used 23.2% fewer tokens than the previous system, Manus said. It finished tasks in 28.2% less time and cost 32% less to run.

A new feature called Automations lets a task start when something happens in a connected service. That can be a new email, a Slack message, a calendar event or a Notion update. Until now, scheduled tasks could only start at a set time. Users can also buy a Cloud Computer, a dedicated environment that keeps running when their laptop is closed.

The desktop app becomes Manus Studio, a shared workspace for documents, spreadsheets, slides, websites, code, games and video. It adds two new environments. Video Editor gives users a timeline of the clips, images, text and audio Manus used, so they can swap pieces by hand. It is built for short product ads of 30 to 60 seconds, tutorials and vlogs.

Game Dev builds games that can be published as a website and played from a link. Its multiplayer servers run on a Cloud Computer.

“Manus empowers you to build. You decide what’s worth building,” the company wrote.

Remote Control lets users ask Manus from their phone to work on their own computer. They can watch the desktop live while it does. Manus first brought its agent to the desktop in March .

Manus, which split from Meta after China’s block, has said it is building a team to develop products for the Chinese market, Bloomberg reported. It is also in talks with local model makers and ecosystem partners.