Xiao Hong
Founder and CEO, Manus
Sold his AI agent startup Manus to Meta in a deal reported at about $2 billion, then Beijing ordered the deal unwound.
- Born
- 1993, Zuo'an Town, Suichuan County, Ji'an, Jiangxi, China
- Now
- Vice President, Meta
- Studied
- Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Interesting facts
- Early start
As a teenager in a small Jiangxi town he wrote software review columns for a Chinese tech site.
baike.baidu.com - Side project
In college he built a WeChat 'drift bottle' for his campus that drew 40,000 replies in three days.
baike.baidu.com - In their words
Calls himself a poor student who got by recruiting technical classmates, and tells founders to take talented classmates to dinner before graduation.
chinatalk.media - Turning point
Turned down a reported $30M acquisition offer from ByteDance for his AI browser assistant Monica in early 2024.
chinatalk.media - Numbers
Meta agreed to buy Manus in December 2025 for a reported $2B+, about nine months after the AI agent launched.
time.com - Turning point
In April 2026 China's NDRC ordered Meta to unwind the Manus deal; by September he was back running Manus independently and launched Manus 2.0.
reuters.com
Career
- MetaVice President2025 to now
- Butterfly Effect (Manus)Founder and CEO2022 to now
- Minglue Technologyuntil 2022
- Wuhan Nightingale TechnologyFounder2015–2024
Education
- Bachelor's, Software engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2015
