Manus Debuts App to Link AI Agents to Personal PCs

Meta-owned Manus has debuted a capability that brings its artificial intelligence (AI) agent to users’ computers.

Meet My Computer “brings Manus out of the cloud and onto your computer,” the company said in a Monday (March 16) blog post.

Using the Manus Desktop app, Manus executes command line instructions (CLI) in a user’s computer’s terminal. This allows it to read, analyze and edit local files, and launch and control local applications, allowing for a variety of automated actions.

The post cited the example of a florist using Manus to organize thousands of photos, or an account turning to the tool to rename hundreds of invoices.

“These file management tasks may seem simple, but they are tedious and repetitive. Automating them makes a real difference,” the company said.

The release of Meet My Computer comes on the heels of the viral popularity of OpenClaw, an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) agent assistant that connects to any large language model through an application programming interface (API).

The rise of OpenClaw “demonstrated something enterprises can no longer defer addressing,” as PYMNTS wrote last month.

“An AI agent operating through APIs can browse the web, read email, access files, run software and initiate transactions without a human driving each step,” the report said. “It does not rely on interfaces designed for people. It interacts directly with programmatic endpoints. That is a different kind of software user, and it requires a different kind of software product.”

When this sort of AI agent browses the web, retrieves files or initiates a transaction, it does not interact with dashboards or graphical interfaces built for human users. It operates solely through APIs, sequencing actions across domains, maintaining state across sessions and adapting its next call based on past responses.

“That change reframes what enterprise software is and who it is built for,” the report added.

Meta announced it was acquiring Manus last year in a $2 billion deal, part of the tech giant’s wider plan to bulk up its AI offerings.

In addition to Meet My Computer, Manus has this week announced a trio of new connections to different Meta offerings, one to Meta Ads Manager, one to Instagram, and one to Instagram’s Creator Marketplace.

“Manus Connectors represent a critical step in our mission to build a more intelligent and integrated system for work,” the company said. “By connecting authoritative sources of information directly to automated execution, we’re removing the friction between insight and action.”

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