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China Blocks Meta's $2 Billion Manus Deal, Orders Unwind

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Jane Sterling
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Funding & Market Card Capital / Revenue

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Meta-Manus Acquisition
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China's NDRC ordered the deal withdrawn on April 27, 2026
▼ BLOCKED — Foreign investment prohibited by NDRC
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NDRC Public Notice
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Sentences in official ruling — zero named legal basis, no timeline
NDRC · April 27, 2026
No appeal process described
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Integration Depth
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Manus employees inside Meta's Singapore offices by March 2026
CEO reporting to Meta COO · March 2026
Operationally fused — not just signed
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Meta Platforms (META)
0%
Share price decline on NDRC ruling day
Meta Platforms · April 27, 2026
▼ Market priced a blocked strategy, not just a blocked deal
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Meta vs S&P 500 — Last 6 Months
Through the Manus review and NDRC ruling
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Meta Platforms — S&P 500 — Source: Yahoo Finance · April 2026
Model Comparison Card Head-to-Head

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GAIA Level 1
Manus
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VS
OpenAI Deep Research
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Source: GAIA Benchmark · March 2025
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Manus GAIA Benchmark
86.5%
Level 1
70.1%
Level 2
57.7%
Level 3
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Manus Business Snapshot
$39/mo
Consumer Tier
$199/mo
Pro Tier
$100M
ARR in 8 Months
Funding & Market Card Capital / Revenue

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Series B — Benchmark led
$ 0M
Valued Manus at $500M — April 2025
▲ $500M → $2B+ in under 7 months
Capture order: top to bottom. Click any preview to enter fullscreen with a 3-second countdown — perfect for OBS.
Recording: use OBS Window Capture cropped to the preview frame, or fullscreen + display capture. Hit Replay, then record. Output drops as an overlay track in your editor.
Palette: the palette saved in motion_kit auto-applies here via localStorage.
Editor workflow — what to do after capturing here:
  1. Generate the avatar look in HeyGen using this episode's HEYGEN_LOOK prompt + the SCRIPT field as the read. Kick the render and grab a coffee.
  2. While HeyGen renders: capture the motion graphics above (top-to-bottom = capture order), grab b-roll, gather logos / photos as transparent PNGs, drop everything into your working folder.
  3. When HeyGen finishes: download both the rendered video and the timecoded transcript (.srt or .vtt). Drop the transcript at:
    /home/jaysoncraig/public_html/sandbox/data/faces/.build/china-blocks-manus-deal/transcript.srt
  4. Generate the Resolve marker CSV + printable shot-list:
    python3 /home/jaysoncraig/.claude/scripts/generate-resolve-markers.py --slug china-blocks-manus-deal
    Outputs: /home/jaysoncraig/public_html/sandbox/data/faces/.build/china-blocks-manus-deal/timeline-markers.csv and /home/jaysoncraig/public_html/sandbox/data/faces/.build/china-blocks-manus-deal/shot-list.html
  5. Open DaVinci Resolve, set the project framerate (the marker tool emits 30fps by default; pass --framerate 60 if your project is 60), drop the HeyGen video on V1.
  6. Timeline header → Import → Marker List from CSV → select timeline-markers.csv. Every cue lands as a colored marker on the correct track: Yellow=TalkingHead, Cyan=VoiceoverScene, Red=Cut, Green=B-roll, Pink=StatCard.
  7. Drop motion-graphic captures, b-roll clips, and stat-card overlays onto the marked positions. The shot-list HTML is your printable fallback if any markers look off.
  8. Export → render → upload. After publish, drop the YouTube URL into the episode's .repurpose.txt placeholders for the cross-channel pack.