Most agent sandboxes today are throwaway: task ends, container dies, files gone. E2B, OpenAI code interpreter, Anthropic computer use — all ephemeral by design.
Manus shipped the opposite. Cloud Computer, launched April 30 on Product Hunt, is a persistent Ubuntu VM. Files, installed tools, cron jobs all survive across sessions. Your agent writes to MySQL on Tuesday, queries it Friday, hosts a Discord bot the whole time.
What you actually do with it
A machine that never sleeps. 24/7 Telegram support bots. Self-host WordPress, Metabase, Home Assistant. Scheduled scrapers. Deploy a Python service and forget about it.
There’s also a public API so external agents can drive the box, not just Manus’s own. That’s the bigger move — Manus is selling agent infra now, not just a Manus feature. Three tiers live (Basic / Standard / Advanced), no public prices, CLI-only for now, no GUI.
Why this matters
Manus has been one of the most-talked-about general agents of the past six months, with Meta reportedly agreeing to acquire the company late last year for around $2B. They’re clearly pushing past “demo agent” into “agent platform.” Persistent compute is the missing piece between one-shot agents and agents that can actually run a business.
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