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🤝Meta Buys AI Agent Startup Manus for $2B
Published 14 days ago • 5 min read
The Creators Hive: AI News, Tools & Tips — Curated for Modern Creators and Innovators
Greetings Qrew,
Whether you're diving into AI for work, side projects, or just out of curiosity — this issue of The Creators Hive brings you practical insights, hands-on learning, and tools you can actually use.
Meta is buying AI startup Manus for over $2 billion to strengthen its push into advanced digital assistants. Manus builds next-gen AI agents that can handle complex online tasks and automate workflows.
Key details:
The deal is expected to exceed $2 billion.
Manus specializes in creating powerful AI assistants for everyday digital work.
Meta aims to merge Manus’s tech into its social and productivity platforms.
The move comes as AI competition heats up with Google and OpenAI.
Why it matters: This acquisition shows Meta’s focus on making its platforms more intelligent and useful. It could help Meta bring realistic AI helpers to billions of users across social media and virtual worlds.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella believes AI is moving beyond hype toward practical impact. Speaking recently, he said the focus is shifting from flashy demos to real results that improve work and life.
Key details:
Nadella said 2025 will be about meaningful AI deployment.
Microsoft plans deeper AI integration into tools like Office, Azure, and Windows.
He emphasized responsible AI use and measurable business outcomes.
The comments come amid fierce competition among top AI firms.
Why it matters: Nadella’s message signals a maturing AI industry where usefulness outweighs spectacle. It shows Microsoft wants AI to become everyday infrastructure, not just a headline feature.
Anthropic’s Claude made headlines with a unique AI experiment: running an online shop. The Wall Street Journal explored how the chatbot managed sales, customer chats, and product listings on its own.
Key details:
Claude set up and ran a digital store from scratch.
It handled real customers and daily business tasks.
The project revealed AI’s potential in small e-commerce automation.
WSJ covered the story as an example of applied AI creativity.
Why it matters: This experiment shows how AI could soon manage small businesses with little human help. It highlights a shift toward practical, task-driven AI that works with real customers.
Perplexity has launched a new feature to automate meeting prep. The tool gathers background details, key updates, and company insights before calls, saving users time.
Key details:
The feature automatically summarizes key meeting topics.
Integrates with calendar and note tools for smooth workflow.
Provides real-time, AI-generated research briefs.
Aims to boost productivity and reduce manual prep work.
Why it matters: This update turns AI into a smart assistant that helps professionals show up informed. It reflects growing demand for AI tools that simplify daily work tasks.
Meta’s AI researchers have developed a system that can find and fix problems in its own code. The model detects software bugs and writes corrections without human help.
Key details:
The AI scans its own code for logic errors.
It learns from past mistakes to refine performance.
Early tests showed big gains in coding accuracy.
Meta sees this as key to maintaining large AI systems.
Why it matters: Self-fixing AI could make future software more reliable and faster to develop. It’s another step toward truly autonomous systems that can improve themselves over time.
Anime.js is a fast JavaScript animation engine that helps you add smooth, modern motion to websites and web apps. It can animate CSS, SVG, DOM attributes, and even plain JavaScript objects using one simple API. Developers use it to build interactive interfaces, playful micro‑interactions, and rich visual stories on the web.
What makes it unique?
Simple, powerful API that is easy to learn but flexible enough for complex animations.
One engine for everything: CSS, SVG, DOM attributes, JS objects, timelines, and scroll‑based motion.
Built‑in tools like staggering, timelines, motion paths, text and SVG utilities, and draggable support.
Lightweight and modular, so you can import only what you need and keep bundle size small.
Use case magic
Landing pages with eye‑catching hero animations, scrolling effects, and subtle transitions.
Product and data visualizations that animate charts, icons, and SVG graphics in a fluid way.
Interactive UI states like button presses, hover feedback, loaders, and modal transitions.
Storytelling sites and portfolio pages that choreograph multiple scenes with timelines and staggered elements.
Why it stands out
Anime.js stands out because it gives designers and developers a single, consistent toolkit to animate almost anything on the web without heavy setup. Its mix of performance, tiny size, and rich utilities makes complex motion feel approachable, so teams can focus on creativity instead of wrestling with low‑level animation code.
Masterpieces from the Hive 🎨
Here’s what our community has been creating this week using the Hive Wall:
Prompt: A vibrant New Year celebration scene at midnight with “2026” glowing in golden light in the sky. Fireworks bursting in multiple colors behind the numbers, creating a festive and joyful atmosphere. In the foreground, a silhouette of a person standing confidently, looking toward the glowing 2026, symbolizing hope, fresh starts, and new goals. Soft city skyline or mountain horizon below, lights twinkling, stars visible in a clear night sky. Floating elements like calendar pages turning, subtle clock hands reaching midnight, confetti in the air. Text space at the bottom or center for: “Happy New Year 2026” Style: Realistic digital art, cinematic lighting, festive, ultra-HD, sharp focus, joyful mood, modern celebration aesthetic. Color palette: gold, deep blue, purple, and sparkling white.
Prompt: Ultra-realistic cinematic 8K daytime road construction scene under bright sunlight. A tiny poor puppy with light brown–golden fur, big glossy emotional eyes, small weak body, wearing torn dirty beige T-shirt and faded green shorts, working hard alongside adult workers. He holds a heavy iron shovel/rake (lohe ka farwa) with both hands, spreading hot road matting/asphalt material evenly on the road. Other workers nearby doing similar work; road roller machine and tractor visible in background. Dust particles in air, sweat on faces, strong sunlight casting sharp shadows. Poor puppy’s face shows effort, determination, and quiet pride. Hyper-realistic fur, fabric, metal tool textures; sharp focus; cinematic realism; no blur, no cartoon style.
Prompt: Make a comic of how red power ranger is turning into a F-16 fighter jet
Prompt: Minecraft-style YouTube thumbnail. Pixel-perfect scene, blocky textures like Minecraft. Player character Steve in iron armor sleeping on a red bed with a blanket, in the middle of an acacia biome. Blocky acacia trees in the background, blocky grass, calm night sky with moon. Relaxing, cozy, Minecraft aesthetic, no text, no extra objects, exactly like Minecraft screenshot, vibrant colors, clean and simple composition.
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In today’s world, being good at just one thing isn’t enough. You need to know how to think, build, sell, and adapt — all at once. That’s what I share in my AI newsletter and community. You’ll learn how to automate tasks, create products, grow businesses, and lead teams — using AI. I’ve worked hands-on across 5+ industries and almost every business role. Everything I share is simple, useful, and straight from experience. Join 5,000+ people learning how to stay sharp, flexible, and future-ready.
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