{"id":338809,"date":"2026-03-10T13:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T13:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/338809\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T13:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T13:20:11","slug":"chinese-tech-giants-offer-cheap-easy-access-to-openclaw-amid-lobster-fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/338809\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese tech giants offer cheap, easy access to OpenClaw amid \u2018lobster fever\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Chinese technology firms, including internet giants Tencent Holdings, Alibaba Group Holding and ByteDance, are offering easy or inexpensive access to OpenClaw, the popular open-source AI agent software amid a \u201clobster fever\u201d in the country.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Tencent on Tuesday officially launched QClaw, an artificial intelligence assistant built on OpenClaw that can connect to the company\u2019s super app WeChat. After download and installation on a computer that takes about three minutes, users can remotely control their laptop by sending a command via WeChat on the phone, according to its website.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Shares of Hong Kong-listed AI companies MiniMax and Zhipu AI surged 22 per cent and 13 per cent, respectively, on Tuesday, as they took steps to incorporate OpenClaw tools. MiniMax integrated its voice and music generators with the OpenClaw ecosystem, while Zhipu released AutoClaw, which can deploy a local version of OpenClaw within one minute.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Alibaba on Monday released a comprehensive guide for integrating OpenClaw with DingTalk, its enterprise communication platform. DingTalk is offering unlimited API calls, or interactions, with OpenClaw until March 31.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Meanwhile, Alibaba Cloud, the company\u2019s cloud unit, has launched tutorials and resources that allow developers to deploy OpenClaw for as low as 9.9 yuan (US$1.4). Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">TikTok owner ByteDance\u2019s cloud unit Volcano Engine on Monday unveiled ArkClaw, marketing it as an \u201cout-of-the-box\u201d version of OpenClaw that runs entirely in the cloud, eliminating the need for complex local environment configuration.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Last Friday, nearly 1,000 people lined up outside Tencent\u2019s Shenzhen headquarters to install OpenClaw on their computers. Photo: Handout\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/b7bb64ce-10d6-421a-a3d1-52b013a4ee38_193e234b.jpg\" title=\"Last Friday, nearly 1,000 people lined up outside Tencent\u2019s Shenzhen headquarters to install OpenClaw on their computers. Photo: Handout\"\/>Last Friday, nearly 1,000 people lined up outside Tencent\u2019s Shenzhen headquarters to install OpenClaw on their computers. Photo: Handout<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese technology firms, including internet giants Tencent Holdings, Alibaba Group Holding and ByteDance, are offering easy or inexpensive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[12442,12484,220,8065,218,219,5841,61,60,1304,46703,133264,80,5838,2215],"class_list":["post-338809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-agent","tag-agentic-ai","tag-ai","tag-alibaba","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-bytedance","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lenovo","tag-meituan","tag-openclaw","tag-technology","tag-tencent","tag-xiaomi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338809","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=338809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}