Browser Use AI Tool Surges in Popularity Thanks to Manus’ Viral Success

Browser Use, an AI tool enabling web agents, sees explosive growth after Manus’ viral rise.
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Browser Use AI Tool Surges in Popularity Thanks to Manus’ Viral Success
Manus, the viral AI “agent” platform from Chinese startup Butterfly Effect, has had an unintended side effect: raising the profile of another AI tool called Browser Use.  Image Credits:JMiks /Shutterstock  Browser Use, which aims to make websites more accessible for agentic applications that perform tasks on a user’s behalf, has experienced explosive growth in the past week. Daily downloads more than quintupled from around 5,000 on March 3 to 28,000 on March 10, co-creator Gregor Zunic said. “The past few days have been really wild,” Zunic said via DM. “We are the biggest trending repository [on GitHub], got loads of downloads [and] all that actually converts to big usage numbers.” Why the uptick? A post about how Manus leverages Browser Use garnered over 2.4 millions views and hundreds of reshares on X. Browser Use is one of the components Manus employs to execute various tasks, like clicking through site menus and filling out forms. Zunic launched the eponymous company behind Browser Use…