Elliot Leavy

Elliot Leavy is the founder of GenAI consultancy Acquainted.

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Elliot Leavy

Is this new Chinese AI even better than DeepSeek?

Each month brings another groundbreaking development in AI, only for it to be swiftly overtaken by the next. Manus, launched by the Chinese tech firm Monica.im, claims it’s not just hype, though. Unlike the chatbot-style assistants we’ve grown accustomed to, Manus is an autonomous AI capable of independently performing complex tasks without requiring human prompts.

Tuesday

Elliot Leavy

DeepSeek has brought China’s ‘Sputnik moment’

In the years since ChatGPT’s debut, the world of artificial intelligence development has been defined by a single obsession: scale. Companies have raced to build ever-larger models, train on datasets of unimaginable size, and spend billions on the infrastructure required to sustain this rapid growth. The logic has been simple: bigger is better. The pursuit