{"id":534129,"date":"2026-07-10T04:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T04:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/534129\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T04:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T04:06:09","slug":"tencent-in-talks-to-become-ai-startup-manus-largest-shareholder-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/534129\/","title":{"rendered":"Tencent in talks to become AI startup Manus&#8217; largest shareholder, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">By Fanny Potkin and Kane Wu  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">SINGAPORE, July 9 (Reuters) &#8211; Chinese \u200cgaming and internet company Tencent \u200cis in talks to become Manus&#8217; largest \u200bshareholder as investors seek alternatives after Beijing ordered Meta to unwind its $2 billion acquisition of the AI \u200cstartup, two \u2060people with knowledge of the matter said on Friday.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">The \u2060Financial Times first reported Tencent&#8217;s talks earlier in the day.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Tencent, \u200btogether with \u200bManus&#8217; original \u200binvestors, including ZhenFund \u200cand HSG, are planning to buy the company back from Meta for no less than $2 billion, said one of the sources and \u200ca third person briefed \u200bon the matter.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Tencent, \u200bManus, Meta \u200band the two investment \u200cfirms did not immediately \u200brespond \u200bto Reuters requests for comment.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">(Reporting by Fanny Potkin and Kane Wu \u200bin \u200cSingapore and Preetika Parashuraman in \u200bBengaluru; Editing by Sherry Jacob-Phillips \u200band Muralikumar Anantharaman)  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Fanny Potkin and Kane Wu SINGAPORE, July 9 (Reuters) &#8211; Chinese \u200cgaming and internet company Tencent \u200cis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[114,85,46,120548,31100,18814],"class_list":["post-534129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-manus","tag-shareholder","tag-tencent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}