Manus AI + Ollama: Build & Scrape ANYTHING (First-Ever General AI Agent) = OpenManus

Artificial intelligence technology has developed rapidly in recent years, and major AI companies are competing to launch more powerful AI agents. Recently, a general AI agent called Manus has attracted widespread attention. Its performance is said to surpass many existing AI systems, including another well-known Chinese AI — DeepSeek & ChatGPT Manus comes from the Latin Mens et Manus, which means mind and hand. It refers to a general artificial intelligence entity/AI Agent that connects thinking and action, which can not only think and deliver answers but also deliver results. Manus excels at handling various tasks in life and work, allowing you to let it do everything even when you are taking a break. Unlike most AI assistants (such as ChatGPT) that only give you suggestions or answers, Manus can think, plan, and execute tasks independently and directly deliver the results to you. Use it to handle complex tasks, and it can be even more efficient than you think. So, let me give you a quick demo of a live chatbot to show you what I mean. I went to an alternative Manus called openManus, First, the prompt gives the travel requirements: the specific travel date, duration and departure location, travel budget and expected travel content; then the expected feedback form is given: a travel manual made in HTML is needed, covering all the above mentioned contents and the necessary suggestions for the trip. Then Manus creates a Markdown file to record all the ToDo contents, starts to search for relevant contents step by step, and clicks on different web pages to view relevant contents. While browsing, it will even actively complete operations such as scrolling down the page and clicking on page elements. During the reading process, it will also try to summarize what it has seen and improve the ToDo table step by step until all the contents are completed, and finally, it produces an HTML version of the travel brochure as requested Manus Demo Case 2: Analyzing Stocks If you take a look at the screen, you will see. Manus demonstrated his strong stock price analysis capabilities. The task is to analyze the correlation between the stock prices of Nvidia, Marvell Technology and TSMC over the past three years. Although there is generally a strong correlation between these three stocks, it may not be easy for novice users to sort out the cause and effect relationship quickly. Manus operates like a real stockbroker. It first accesses information platforms such as Yahoo Finance through API to obtain historical stock data and cross-verifies the accuracy of the data to avoid possible misleading information from a single data source and ensure the reliability of the final analysis results. In this case, Manus used Python programming skills to perform data analysis and visualization and combined it with professional tools in the financial field. Ultimately, he provided users with clear feedback on the causal relationship between these stocks through data charts and detailed analysis reports, which is like the tasks that “interns” in the financial field do in their daily work. So, by the end of this Story, you will understand why Manus is Unique, how it works, why it really more powerful than DeepSeek & ChatGPT and how to install it locally. Let’s dig a little deeper. Before we start!

Mar 12, 2025 - 21:49

Manus AI + Ollama: Build & Scrape ANYTHING (First-Ever General AI Agent) = OpenManus

Artificial intelligence technology has developed rapidly in recent years, and major AI companies are competing to launch more powerful AI agents.

Recently, a general AI agent called Manus has attracted widespread attention. Its performance is said to surpass many existing AI systems, including another well-known Chinese AI — DeepSeek & ChatGPT

Manus comes from the Latin Mens et Manus, which means mind and hand. It refers to a general artificial intelligence entity/AI Agent that connects thinking and action, which can not only think and deliver answers but also deliver results. Manus excels at handling various tasks in life and work, allowing you to let it do everything even when you are taking a break.

Unlike most AI assistants (such as ChatGPT) that only give you suggestions or answers, Manus can think, plan, and execute tasks independently and directly deliver the results to you. Use it to handle complex tasks, and it can be even more efficient than you think.

So, let me give you a quick demo of a live chatbot to show you what I mean.

I went to an alternative Manus called openManus, First, the prompt gives the travel requirements: the specific travel date, duration and departure location, travel budget and expected travel content; then the expected feedback form is given: a travel manual made in HTML is needed, covering all the above mentioned contents and the necessary suggestions for the trip.

Then Manus creates a Markdown file to record all the ToDo contents, starts to search for relevant contents step by step, and clicks on different web pages to view relevant contents.

While browsing, it will even actively complete operations such as scrolling down the page and clicking on page elements. During the reading process, it will also try to summarize what it has seen and improve the ToDo table step by step until all the contents are completed, and finally, it produces an HTML version of the travel brochure as requested

Manus Demo Case 2: Analyzing Stocks
If you take a look at the screen, you will see. Manus demonstrated his strong stock price analysis capabilities. The task is to analyze the correlation between the stock prices of Nvidia, Marvell Technology and TSMC over the past three years.

Although there is generally a strong correlation between these three stocks, it may not be easy for novice users to sort out the cause and effect relationship quickly.

Manus operates like a real stockbroker. It first accesses information platforms such as Yahoo Finance through API to obtain historical stock data and cross-verifies the accuracy of the data to avoid possible misleading information from a single data source and ensure the reliability of the final analysis results.

In this case, Manus used Python programming skills to perform data analysis and visualization and combined it with professional tools in the financial field.

Ultimately, he provided users with clear feedback on the causal relationship between these stocks through data charts and detailed analysis reports, which is like the tasks that “interns” in the financial field do in their daily work.

So, by the end of this Story, you will understand why Manus is Unique, how it works, why it really more powerful than DeepSeek & ChatGPT and how to install it locally. Let’s dig a little deeper.