Tencent expands OpenClaw suite with enterprise tool amid China’s ‘lobster’ craze

Chinese tech firms are rushing to offer China users easy or inexpensive access to OpenClaw after it went viral.

Photo: Getty Images Tencent Holdings has launched a new OpenClaw tool for enterprises that promises easy deployment of the artificial intelligence agent as part of the Chinese internet giant’s efforts to capitalise on the “lobster” frenzy in the country.

ClawPro, launched in public beta by Tencent’s cloud unit on Thursday, works as an AI agent management platform for enterprises, allowing them to deploy OpenClaw templates, select models and agents, track token consumption and manage security settings.

Tencent said firms could deploy ClawPro in just 10 minutes, without the need for specialised technical support.

During its internal beta, ClawPro was adopted by more than 200 organisations, including those in finance, government and manufacturing sectors requiring strict security compliance, according to a company statement on Thursday.

ClawPro is the latest addition to Tencent’s suite of OpenClaw tools for amateurs, developers and enterprises, as the company aggressively banks on the country’s enthusiasm for the agent to win users in China’s competitive AI landscape.

Tencent holds an “OpenClaw one-stop service day” in Hefei, Anhui province.

Photo: Xinhua Tencent previously launched WorkBuddy, an OpenClaw-compatible AI agent for workplace tasks, and QClaw, which connects to the company’s super app WeChat, among other tools.

On Thursday, Tencent issued an apology after some users of WorkBuddy and CodeBuddy experienced login glitches for a few hours in the morning.

The company said it would offer 1,000 credits in compensation to affected users, without elaborating on the cause of the incident.

On the same day, the Shenzhen-based company deepened ties with OpenClaw, as the open-source agent added Tencent’s QQ to an update, making the long-standing messaging app the first Chinese social media platform to be natively integrated with OpenClaw’s official platform.

QQ Bot, a bridging service that connected the popular messaging platform with external applications through the message communication protocol – a standard framework that allowed software to exchange messages – was added as a “bundled channel plug-in”, according to OpenClaw.

The source code of QQ Bot has also been merged into OpenClaw’s main repository.

OpenClaw, released late last year, is an AI agent that can perform tasks on a computer, including coding, managing files and booking

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