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Manus 2.0 Arrives With Phone Numbers and Wallets for AI Agents
Manus has released version 2.0, giving its AI agents phone numbers and wallets so they can handle identity verification and payment-style tasks. The update also lets several agents be pulled into one group and divide the work among themselves.
Manus 2.0 has arrived, and its headline features are not about benchmark scores. According to the Chinese tech outlet QbitAI, the new version equips AI agents with their own phone numbers and wallets, and lets several agents be pulled into one group to work together.
The phone number is about identity. Most online services still treat an SMS code as the fallback proof that a user is real, which is exactly where an agent gets stuck when it tries to register or log in. Handing an agent a number removes that wall.
The wallet goes further. It means an agent is no longer limited to looking things up and summarizing them; within whatever permissions it is granted, it can pay, subscribe, or buy. That immediately raises the practical questions of spending limits, revocation, and liability.
"Pulling agents into a group" points at a second, different bet: multi-agent collaboration. A single general-purpose agent is bounded by its context and its role, while a room of specialized agents can claim tasks and hand them off, closer to how a human team works.
Together the three pieces describe Manus's product thesis. It is not building another chat window but something closer to social infrastructure for agents, so that an agent can be delegated to and held accountable.
In 2026 the agent race has shifted from which model reasons best to which product actually closes the loop on real tasks, and mundane capabilities like a phone number are often the last missing pieces.
Three things to watch: who supplies the numbers and wallets and which regions they cover, how payment permissions and audit trails are designed, and whether group collaboration holds up on long, multi-step jobs.
Why it matters
Giving agents phone numbers and wallets plugs them into real identity and payment systems, which could push them from handling information into executing transactions.
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