The user of the browser, one of the tools supplying manus, also becomes viral
ManusThe “agent” viral platform of the Chinese start butterfly effect had an involuntary side effect: increasing the profile of another AI tool called the use of the browser.
Use of the browserWhich aims to make websites more accessible for agent applications that carry out tasks in the name of a user, experienced explosive growth in last week. Daily downloads more than the fivefold from around 5,000 on 3 to 28,000 March 10, Gregor Zunic co-creator in Techcrunch told.
“The last days have been really wild,” said Zunic via DM. “We are the biggest trendy repository [on GitHub]has a lot of downloads [and] Everything that is converted into major use numbers. »»
Why increase? An article on how the manus uses the use of the browser collected more than 2.4 million views and hundreds of reshara on X. Use of the browser is One of the components Manus uses to perform various tasks, such as click on site menus and fill in forms.
Zunic launched the eponymous company behind the use of the browser with Magnus Müller last year from the accelerator of student project houses of ETH Zurich. The pair believed that web agents – agents who navigate websites and web applications independently – were going to be the “great thing” in 2025.
“What started as an occasional brainstorming on some lunches turned into a challenge: let’s build something small, throw it on Hacker News and see what’s going on,” said Zunic. “We gathered a MVP in four days, the launched and the boom – number one. From there it was an absolute rocket. »»
Brower uses the elements of a website – buttons, widgets, etc. – To allow AI models to interact more easily with them. The tool can manage several browser tabs, configure actions such as file recording and carry out database operations, and manage mouse and keyboard inputs.
Use of the browser business Fresh for managed plans, but also offers a free and self-hosted version of its software. This is the version that exploded in the days that followed the unveiling of manus.
Zunic says that he and Magnus are trying to “sell a shovel” to the developers who run after the gold rush of web agents.
“We wanted to create a foundation layer on which everyone build browser agents,” said Zunic. “In our mind, there will be more agents on the web than humans by the end of the year.”
This may seem too optimistic, but several analysts predict that the wider market of AI agents will indeed develop enormously in the coming months. According to In research and markets, the sector will reach $ 42 billion in 2029. Deloitte anticipated This half of the companies using AI will deploy agents of AI by 2027.
Aside from the manus effect, the timing of the use of the browser seems to have been fortuitous.
