"My daughter came to me and asked: Dad, I see you raising a lobster every day," he said. Bai Yiyun, another attendee at the Zhipu event, said she hopes to use the agent to start a side hustle during her retirement. Zhipu this week raised token prices on its new OpenClaw-optimised AI model by 20%. "Beijing clearly sees AI as strategically important and wants Chinese firms to commercialize quickly," said Rui Ma, founder of the Tech Buzz China newsletter. At the Baidu event on Tuesday, an employee used a voice command — sent through a Xiaodu smart device — to order coffee on a McDonald's app, an operation made possible by an OpenClaw agent.

Source: The Edge Markets March 19, 2026 08:33 UTC