Manus, the viral AI “agent” platform from Chinese startup Butterfly Effect, has had an unintended side effect: raising the profile of another AI tool called Browser Use. Browser Use, which aims to make websites more accessible for agentic applications that perform tasks on a user’s behalf, has experienced explosive growth in the past week. Daily downloads more than quintupled from around 5,000 on March 3 to 28,000 on March 10, co-creator Gregor Zunic told TechCrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/12/browser-use-one-of-the-tools-powering-manus-is-also-going-viral/ - https://browser-use.com/ - https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/09/manus-probably-isnt-chinas-second-deepseek-moment/