Singaporean AI startup Manus, which made headlines earlier this year for its approach to a multi-agent orchestration platform for consumers and “pro”-sumers (professionals wanting to run work operations), is back with an interesting new use of its technology.
While many other major rival AI providers such as OpenAI, Google, and xAI that have launched “Deep Research” or “Deep Researcher” AI agents that conduct minutes or hours of extensive, in-depth web research and write well-cited, thorough reports on behalf of users, Manus is taking a different approach.
The company just announced “Wide Research,” a new experimental feature that enables users to execute large-scale, high-volume tasks by leveraging the power of parallelized AI agents — even more than 100 at a single time, all focused on completing a single task (or series of sub-tasks laddering up said overarching goal).
Manus was previously reported to be using Anthropic Claude models to power its platform.
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Parallel processing for research, summarization and creative output
In a video posted on the official X account, Manus co-founder and Chief Scientist Yichao ‘Peak’ Ji shows a demo of using Wide Research to compare 100 sneakers.
To complete the task, Manus Wide Research nearly instantly spins up 100 concurrent subagents — each assigned to analyze one shoe’s design, pricing, and availability.
The result is a sortable matrix delivered in both spreadsheet and webpage formats within minutes.
The company suggests Wide Research isn’t limited to data analysis. It can also be used for creative tasks like design exploration.
In one scenario, Manus agents simultaneously generated poster designs across 50 distinct visual styles, returning polished assets in a downloadable ZIP file.
According to Manus, this flexibility stems from the system-level approach to parallel processing and agent-to-agent communication.
In the video, Peak explains that Wide Research is the first application of an optimized virtualization and agent architecture capable of scaling compute power 100 times beyond initial offerings.
The feature is designed to activate automatically during tasks that require wide-scale analysis, with no manual toggles or configurations required.
Availability and pricing
Wide Research is available starting today for users on Manus Pro plan and will gradually become accessible to those on the Plus and Basic plans. As of now, subscription pricing for Manus is structured as follows per month.
- Free – $0/month Includes 300 daily refresh credits, access to Chat mode, 1 concurrent task, and 1 scheduled task.
- Basic – $19/month Adds 1,900 monthly credits (+1,900 bonus during limited offer), 2 concurrent and 2 scheduled tasks, access to advanced models in Agent mode,