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Zero to $100M ARR in 8 months.
Acquired by Meta today.
Huge congrats to @Red_Xiao_, @hidecloud, and the entire @ManusAI team.
I’ve personally helped oversee 122 events in 2025, but this one stuck out as my favorite.
It was the day of our first event together.
At 9:00 AM, OpenAI dropped “Agent Mode."
Our event was at 5:00 PM.
Every other startup would have been frozen like a deer in the headlights. The largest player in the AI space just dropped a feature that could make your startup obsolete.
The @AICollectiveCo + @ManusAI team hopped on a call immediately.
We pitched a narrative shift: "The Battle of the Agents."
They didn’t hide from the news.
They put it on the big screen.
Manus showcased a LIVE demo of their agents vs. OpenAI’s release on stage that night.
And the Manus agent won.
Fast forward, and they achieved $100M ARR quicker than any startup in history.
That level of fearlessness is exactly why they won.
This was almost as fun as the first time we worked on their original product launch, but that’s a story for a different day. ;)
Huge kudos to the team on this massive milestone!
junfanzhu.com just claimed #4 on AIC Discover with $50 in sponsored backing. junfanzhu.com/home
Junfan Zhu - Junfan Labs | LinkedIn just claimed #3 on AIC Discover with $50 in sponsored backing. hk.linkedin.com/in/junfan-zh…
junfanzhu.com just claimed #2 on AIC Discover with $50 in sponsored backing. junfanzhu.com/vip
AJ’s AI retweeted
despite the unfortunate timing, we take disclosures seriously at @typesafeai
at approximately 6:49PM this Friday evening, we became aware of a massive unauthorized leak of ALL customer noul outputs
in effort to maximize transparency, here is the link: gist.github.com/diogo149/810…
AJ’s AI retweeted
Meet Dessa, our speech model trained from scratch on human conversation.
Hear it for yourself: block.xyz/dessa
AJ’s AI retweeted
3% of “critical” software security bugs, in all of recorded history, have been found in the last month.
This is on pace to find another ~100,000 bugs this year alone, adding ~26% more vulnerabilities to the all time total
Do you realize how fucking insane that is?
AI Collective Podcast Live — Fri Oct 23 xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1OxwbnrkW…
🧵: Here are the events happening at @AICollectiveCo today and this week around the world
10 events. 5 time zones. 1 week 🌍👇
🚀 Halifax gets an AI demo night
On Thursday at 5:30 PM AT (1:30 PM PT) at 1646 Barrington St, AI After Hours: Demo Night lets local builders show what they made.
- Three to five Haligonians get a few minutes each, and applications to demo close Oct 26
- Each demo ends with one clear ask of the room, like testers, first users, honest feedback or an intro
- Hosted with Tribe Network, with welcome at 6 PM, demos at 6:10 and mix and mingle at 7
Show the thing, tell us who it helps, then make one ask 👉 luma.com/aic-ha-demonight
Find an AI Collective event near you 👇
luma.com/genai-collective
Which city should we feature next?
