PANews reported on March 28 that according to The Information, three people familiar with the matter revealed that the Manus AI team is negotiating with potential investors, including US venture capital institutions, and plans to conduct a new round of financing with a valuation of at least US$500 million (approximately RMB 3.75 billion), which is about five times the previous valuation. The developer of Manus is Butterfly Effect. According to people familiar with the matter, the company, whose main team is located in Beijing, has recently contacted some US investors online and offline, and the scale of this round of financing may reach tens of millions of dollars. It is reported that Manus uses tools such as Anthropic's Claude AI model, and Anthropic needs to pay an average of US$2 per task. The new round of financing may open Manus to more users. In response to this news, Butterfly Effect responded: No comment on the financing situation.