China blocks Manus acquisition: What signal does this send?

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  China's top economic regulator has blocked the foreign acquisition of the MANAS project.

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  China's top economic regulator has blocked the foreign acquisition of the MEDAS project.

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  The National Development and Reform Commission has rejected MEDAS acquisition of the AI startup.

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  Unlike chatbots that only generate text, MEDAS autonomously plans and executes complex tasks from data analysis

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  and coding to research and file processing.

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  Last December, Manus announced that it would join U.S. Tech giant Meta in a deal of over 2 billion U.S. Dollars.

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  So to delve into this, let's have Li Lun, Assistant Professor of Economics at Peking University.

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  Thanks for joining us, Professor.

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