{"id":278282,"date":"2026-02-03T09:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T09:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/278282\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T09:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T09:38:15","slug":"value-for-money-ai-agent-openclaw-adopts-chinese-models-for-cost-edge-over-us-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/278282\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Value for money\u2019: AI agent OpenClaw adopts Chinese models for cost edge over US rivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenClaw, which has been a runaway success since its late 2025 launch, announced on Friday that it was offering Chinese start-up <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-trends\/article\/3341580\/moonshots-newest-release-narrows-us-china-ai-model-development-gap-analysts?module=top_story&amp;pgtype=section?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Moonshot AI\u2019s latest Kimi K2.5<\/a> and Kimi Coding agent for free in its service, while adding support for <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/policy\/article\/3340515\/china-signals-global-ai-push-minimax-ceo-joins-meeting-premier-li-qiang?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MiniMax<\/a>, another Chinese foundational AI developer.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Analysts said Chinese open-source models were being picked up mostly for their \u201cvalue for money\u201d compared with other models, according to Luo Liang, a Beijing-based AI analyst at consultancy Intelligent Parameters.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Luo said many users had reported letting the autonomous agent run on its own, only to find it consumed large amounts of tokens \u2013 the basic units of text or data processed by AI models that directly affect computing costs \u2013 and incurred unexpected service bills.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Chinese open-source AI models \u2013 since the emergence of DeepSeek\u2019s high-performance and low-cost V3 and R1 systems \u2013 have become known for their competitive pricing compared with US models.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Beijing-based Moonshot AI\u2019s newly released Kimi K2.5, hailed as the strongest open-source AI model so far, costs US$0.58 for every million input tokens and US$3 for output.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"OpenClaw says it is adding support for MiniMax, another Chinese foundational AI developer. Photo: Getty Images\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/21a9b80e-a324-4dad-a115-12227bf7cc19_5c60d7de.jpg\" title=\"OpenClaw says it is adding support for MiniMax, another Chinese foundational AI developer. Photo: Getty Images\"\/>OpenClaw says it is adding support for MiniMax, another Chinese foundational AI developer. Photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenClaw, which has been a runaway success since its late 2025 launch, announced on Friday that it was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,8065,3673,218,219,2102,114,134954,134956,8061,4067,134959,61,134958,60,134952,134961,21648,238,133264,134955,5698,80,5838,134957,90,10541,134960,134953],"class_list":["post-278282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-alibaba","tag-anthropic","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-chinese-ai-cloud-platforms","tag-chinese-open-source-ai-models","tag-claude-opus","tag-deepseek","tag-dingtalk","tag-ie","tag-intelligent-parameters","tag-ireland","tag-kimi-coding-agent","tag-mark-yang","tag-minimax","tag-moonshot-ai","tag-openclaw","tag-peter-steinberger","tag-shanghai","tag-technology","tag-tencent","tag-tianjing-normal-university","tag-us","tag-v3","tag-wang-shuyi","tag-wecom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}