Introducing Wide Research
Thursday, July 31
Product
Earlier this year, the launch of Manus defined the category of General AI Agents, and shaped how people think about what agent products can and should be. But to us, Manus was never just an AI. It has always been a one-of-a-kind personal cloud computing platform.
Traditionally, harnessing cloud compute for custom workflows has been a privilege reserved for engineers and power users. At Manus, we believe AI can democratize that power. Behind every Manus session runs a dedicated cloud-based virtual machine, allowing users to orchestrate complex cloud workloads — simply by talking to an agent.
From generating tailored rental presentations to safely evaluating cutting-edge open-source projects in a secure sandbox, the Turing-completeness of the virtual machine is what gives Manus its generality — and opens the door to endless creative possibilities.
Naturally, we’ve been asking ourselves: How can we scale the compute available to each user by 100×? And what new possibilities emerge when anyone can control a supercomputing cluster — just by chatting?
After months of optimization, our large-scale virtualization infrastructure and highly efficient agent architecture have made this vision a reality. Today, we’re introducing the first feature built on top of this foundation: Manus Wide Research.
With the launch of Wide Research, Manus unlocks a powerful new way for users to tackle complex, large-scale tasks that require information on hundreds of items. Whether you're exploring the Fortune 500, comparing top MBA programs, or diving into GenAI tools, Wide Research makes deep, high-volume research effortless.
We affectionately call it Wide Research, but what it unlocks goes far beyond research. At its core, Wide Research is a system-level mechanism for parallel processing, and a protocol for agent-to-agent collaboration.
The key to Wide Research isn’t just having more agents — it’s how they collaborate. Unlike traditional multi-agent systems based on predefined roles (like "manager", "coder", or "designer"), every subagent in Wide Research is a fully capable, general-purpose Manus instance.
This generality unlocks flexibility: tasks are not constrained to rigid formats or predefined domains. In practice, the only real limit is your imagination.
Wide Research is launching today for Pro users, with gradual rollout planned for Plus and Basic tiers.
Wide Research marks a milestone in our exploration of the scaling laws of AI agents, but it’s just the beginning. The infrastructure behind it is part of something much bigger we’re building.
Stay tuned.
Less structure, more intelligence.