ManusVirus AI platform from Chinese Startup Butterfly Effect, have an unintentional effect: increase in the profile of a AI used browser US.

Use browserthat refers to make websites more accessible for agent applications that make tasks in the name of a user, experienced strong growth last week. Daily download more than quintillled from about 5,000 on March 3 to 28,000 on March 10, Gregor Gregor Zunic told Techcrunch.

“The past few days wild,” says Zunic Via DM. “We are the largest trending repository (in GitHub), gets a lot of downloads (and) all those converted to numbers.”

Why is uptick? A post about how the manus leverage is used Obtained over 2.4 millions of views and hundreds of reshares of X. using browser use one of the ingredients Manus uses different tasks, such as clicking on site menus and filling shapes.

Zunic launches the eponymous company behind the browser used with Magnus Müller last year from the student at the House Student in Eth Zurich’s Student Project House House Accelerator. The Web agents thought – agents navigating websites and web apps autonommanously – to be “big thing” by 2025.

“The start of the casual brainwashes some lunches have been a challenge: Let’s build a little, drop it to Hacker News, and see what happens,” Zunic said. “We went with a MVP for four days, launched it, and boom – number one. From there, it was a perfect rocket.”

Bearow uses the website elements – buttons, widgets, and so on – to allow AI models to get along easily with them. The tool can manage multiple browser tabs, establish actions such as storing files and perform database operations, and handling the mouse and keyboard input.

Use browser the company Charges are for handling plans, but also give a free, hosted its own version of its software. That’s the version blown on the days since Manus’s opening.

Zunic says that he and Magnus seeks to “sell a shovel” to developers to chase gold web agents.

“We want to create a foundation layer that everyone builds browser agents,” Zunic says. “In our minds, there are many web agents than people at the end of the year.”

That would be a more intense suffering, but many analysts predict the wider market for AI agents actually grow in the coming months. According to of research and market, the sector reaches $ 42 billion in 2029. Deloitte expecting That’s half companies using AI deploy AI AI agents in 2027.

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Updated 12:45 PM PACIFIC: An early version of this story incorrectly addressed “browser use” as “user user” in the browser “in the heading. We regret the error.