Manus 2.0 gives agents computers, wallets and inboxes

Tools built for work that continues

Manus Studio now includes two environments:

Cue takes a different approach. It assigns each agent its own email address, wallet and computer, making remote access part of the product rather than an afterthought.

Manus 2.0 is available now. Cue is in free early access, with an invitation code.

The acquisition that did not happen

Meta acquired Manus in late 2025, but had to cancel the deal after Beijing blocked it. Tencent then began negotiations to buy a majority stake in the startup.

Meta is now backing its own agent, Muse, which also gives each user a cloud computer. That makes the overlap between the products more than a feature comparison: Manus is building in the same direction as a company that tried to own it, and then had to walk away.

The open question is control

I think the more consequential part of this launch is not video editing or game development. It is the decision to give agents persistent resources: an inbox, a wallet and a computer. That is a stronger product proposition than a chatbot that only responds in a session, but the announcement leaves out how much autonomy users can grant those agents and what controls govern their access.

Cue’s free early access makes the offer easy to try. The harder question is whether users will trust agents with the accounts and computing environments that make remote work useful in the first place.