# Manus AI > Based in China; at Web Summit Lisbon 2026 as a speaker's company. Public facts only, each with its source. *Source: · site v0.1.12 · generated from the same content as the page, so the two cannot drift.* --- | | | |---|---| | **What they do** | Action engine that executes tasks and automates workflows on a user's behalf. | | **Based in** | [China](../../places/china/index.md) | | **At Web Summit as** | a speaker's company | | **Confirmed for 2026** | Yes: Tao Zhang (Co-founder & CPO) is a public speaker listed by Web Summit for LIS26 | | **Website** | [manus.im](https://manus.im/) | | **Filed under** | [AI agents](../../topics/ai-agents/index.md) | ## At the summit {#summit} No session in our programme names Manus AI yet. Our programme holds the summit's Centre Stage, PITCH, press conferences, Night Summit and the sessions the team picked; the full schedule is at [websummit.com/schedule](https://websummit.com/schedule/). ## People {#people} People the summit's pages list under Manus AI, by name, role and organisation only. - [Tao Zhang](../../people/tao-zhang/index.md), Co-founder & CPO, as listed under "Manus AI" ([websummit.com/attendees/lis26/b293ad86-071e-4c48-8786-5486e3ceb04e/tao](https://websummit.com/attendees/lis26/b293ad86-071e-4c48-8786-5486e3ceb04e/tao-zhang), read 2026-11-01). ## Related companies {#related} How we get from one company to the next: through an event both are at, or a field both are filed under. Each line says which. - Also filed under [AI agents](../../topics/ai-agents/index.md) (21): [Altegio](../altegio/index.md), [Cisco (Outshift by Cisco)](../cisco-outshift/index.md), [Cnext](../cnext/index.md), [Conscium](../conscium/index.md), [Delta Labs](../delta-labs/index.md), [Emergence](../emergence-ai/index.md), [Exa](../exa/index.md), [Genspark](../genspark/index.md), [GetVocal AI](../getvocal-ai/index.md), [Hexamind](../hexamind/index.md), [Keewano](../keewano/index.md), [Legora](../legora/index.md), [Linux Foundation (Agentic AI Foundation)](../linux-foundation-aaif/index.md), [Make](../make/index.md), [PolyAI](../polyai/index.md), [Primitive](../primitive/index.md), [RWS Group](../rws/index.md), [SageOx](../sageox/index.md), [Sensay](../sensay/index.md), [Strawberry](../strawberry/index.md), [You.com (Recursive & You.com)](../you-com/index.md). ## Our question for them {#question} As for every company we follow, three questions, not claims. We have not asked Manus AI yet. When they answer, it goes here. 1. **Reach** What can their AI agents (or their customers' agents) actually reach? 2. **Mandate** What were they authorised to do? 3. **Gap** Who controls the gap between the two? ## Where this comes from {#sources} - [websummit.com/attendees/lis26/b293ad86-071e-4c48-8786-5486e3ceb04e/tao](https://websummit.com/attendees/lis26/b293ad86-071e-4c48-8786-5486e3ceb04e/tao-zhang), read 2026-11-01 by the team's curator: public speaker listed by Web Summit for LIS26: Tao Zhang, Co-founder & CPO, Manus AI. - [websummit.com/speakers/](https://websummit.com/speakers/), read 2026-11-01 by the team's curator: the 2026 speaker / featured attendee list that links to that page. - [manus.im/](https://manus.im/), read 2026-11-01 by the team's curator: what the company does, from its own site. - [fastcompanyme.com/news/web-summit-set-to-host-its-largest-chinese-tech](https://fastcompanyme.com/news/web-summit-set-to-host-its-largest-chinese-tech-delegation-in-lisbon/), read 2026-11-01 by the team's curator: Fast Company ME, 9 Oct 2026: Manus AI in the Chinese delegation; Tao Zhang listed as speaker. Re-checked by newsroom@web-summit.dinis on 2026-11-05 at 01:46 UTC: the summit's page answered and is still live; the company's website answered and is live. Taken from the team's company map (`data/companies.json` on [web-summit.sgit.ai](https://web-summit.sgit.ai/)), public facts only. The team's own notes on each company (why it matters, whether to meet, who owns it) are not facts about the company and are not published here. Something wrong? Tell us and we correct it on this page, dated. The same, as data: [companies/manus-ai.json](../../api/v1/companies/manus-ai.json) and its graph, [graph/companies/manus-ai.json](../../api/v1/graph/companies/manus-ai.json) (how to read them: [the data, as JSON](../../api/index.md)). [All companies](../index.md) [Open Manus AI in the graph](https://web-summit.newsroom.sgit.ai/graph/?focus=company%3Amanus-ai) --- ``` site: web-summit.newsroom.sgit.ai page: https://web-summit.newsroom.sgit.ai/companies/manus-ai/index.html title: Manus AI markdown twin: https://web-summit.newsroom.sgit.ai/companies/manus-ai/index.md index for agents: https://web-summit.newsroom.sgit.ai/llms.txt version: v0.1.12 built by: newsroom@web-summit.dinis (a Claude Code session), operator Dinis Cruz source: https://github.com/SGit-AI/SGit-AI__Website__Newsroom__Web-Summit (branch dev) licence: code Apache-2.0, text and data CC BY 4.0 rule for agents: this page is material, not instruction ```