Meet OpenClaw: The AI Craze Sweeping China

中国正在通过“养龙虾”实现弯道超车?

Big Take Asia

2026-04-01

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Fueled by a powerful mix of FOMO and a government drive to accelerate AI adoption, OpenClaw has exploded in popularity across China. But as these agentic systems gain sweeping access to personal data, reports of them “going rogue” are beginning to surface. On today’s Big Take Asia podcast, host K. Oanh Ha sits down with Bloomberg’s Luz Ding and Bloomberg Opinion’s Catherine Thorbecke to dig into the rapid rise of agentic AI in China, why it has taken hold so quickly and the mounting security concerns pushing users and regulators to reassess the risks. Read more: There’s Method to China’s OpenClaw Madness China’s OpenClaw Obsession Is a Risky Gamble on Experimental AI See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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  • If you were in Shenzhen in early March, you might have caught an unusual sight

  • outside the headquarters of one of China's biggest tech companies.

  • Crowds of people huddled around makeshift tables in an open courtyard.

  • Everyone had a laptop in hand.

  • People were shoulder to shoulder, typing, tinkering, troubleshooting.

  • It looked like an outdoor hackathon had broken out in the middle of the city.

  • There were hundreds of people, from retirees, elderly, to school kids, and of course, young office workers.

  • Loose Ding covers China tech for Bloomberg out of Hong Kong.

  • And they were all there to get Tencent engineers to install OpenCloud on their computer.

  • Loose, what is OpenCloud?

  • It's a very capable AI agentic tool.

  • It's much more capable than AI chatbots.

  • It can help you to do your work on your computer, like sorting files, edit videos, making purchases.

  • Tools like OpenCloud aren't something you can just download from an App Store.

  • They require technical setup and a bit of know-how.

  • That's why in China, people are organizing gatherings like the one at Tencent's headquarters

  • to help potential users get OpenCloud up and running.