{"id":366199,"date":"2026-04-06T11:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T11:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/366199\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T11:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T11:48:10","slug":"chinese-ai-rivals-clash-over-anthropics-openclaw-exit-amid-global-token-crunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/366199\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese AI rivals clash over Anthropic\u2019s OpenClaw exit amid global token crunch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chinese tech companies are engaged in a public war of words as they compete to capitalise on US start-up Anthropic\u2019s decision to pull its industry-leading Claude models from open-source AI agent tool OpenClaw.<\/p>\n

The development comes as AI agents have triggered a huge increase in demand for AI tokens \u2013 the core metric of AI usage \u2013 raising questions about the long-term ability of industry players to meet this demand amid a growing global crunch in computational power.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Anthropic announced that Claude subscriptions would no longer cover usage on third-party tools like OpenClaw, a move it said was needed to \u201cprioritise existing customers\u201d of its own products.<\/p>\n

Chinese companies MiniMax and Xiaomi quickly weighed in, encouraging users to switch to their own token subscription plans instead.<\/p>\n

\"SeveralSeveral AI applications can be seen on a smartphone screen, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, Meta AI, Grok and DeepSeek. Photo: dpa<\/p>\n

In a post on X, Shanghai-based MiniMax accused Anthropic of hurting the AI community by introducing its restrictions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be more good ideas of how to use AI coming from outside the AI labs than in them,\u201d MiniMax said. \u201cLimiting AI subs to first-party products kills these ideas before they are ever born.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese tech companies are engaged in a public war of words as they compete to capitalise on US…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,2300,138,607,219,4431,263,111,43,139,69,2114,14095,2022,145,3040,377],"class_list":{"0":"post-366199","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-asia","12":"tag-business","13":"tag-china","14":"tag-economy","15":"tag-hong-kong","16":"tag-lifestyle","17":"tag-new-zealand","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-opinion","22":"tag-south-china-morning-post","23":"tag-sport","24":"tag-technology","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}