Mans AI is one of the hottest AI agent startups around, Recently collecting $ 75 million In a round headed by the benchmark, $ 1.5 billion.
But two unknown sources Told Simpur This investment is now under consideration by the US Treasury Department to comply with 2023 sanctions on investment in Chinese companies.
Simpur reports, the benchmark lawyers cleared this investment because Menus is not technically developing his AI model, but instead is a “rapper” around the current people.
These lawyers also concluded that Manas is not based on China because it has been added to the island of Cayman. (This is a common structure used by Chinese companies, Like AlibabaTo access foreign capital.)
Benchmark has criticized the founder’s fund partner Dilin Sproov for his investment, who posted on the X “Wow, the results of actions.”
Benchmarks, Mans, and Treasury did not immediately respond to the comments requests.