"Since January, I've spent hours on the lobster every day," Gao told AFP, referring to OpenClaw's red crustacean mascot. Some municipalities, including the eastern cities of Wuxi and Hangzhou, have pledged hundreds of thousands of dollars to support the adoption and development of OpenClaw and other AI agents. Meanwhile, a separate team of coders that made Moltbook, a Reddit-like pseudo social network where OpenClaw agents converse, are joining Meta. Top Chinese tech companies have also been quick to get involved. In recent days AI companies big and small have also launched their own competing agent tools, such as ByteDance's ArkClaw, Tencent's WorkBuddy and Zhipu AI's AutoClaw.

Source: The Star March 16, 2026 13:05 UTC