Not Price Alone: Two Inflection Points Behind China’s Robot Vacuum Rise Over iRobot
Liang-rong Chen
Happy New Year everyone,
This is the first newsletter of 2026.
In the final days of 2025, Meta acquired Manus AI, a Singapore-based company, in a deal rumored to be worth US$2.5 billion.
Many readers may recognize the name. Manus, a general-purpose AI agent startup, briefly went viral in March 2025 during a closed beta of its product, earning lavish praise…
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