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Forbes reports China's grassroots OpenClaw adoption has become a national phenomenon. Zhipu AI's GLM-5-Turbo, trained on domestic Huawei chips, is optimized specifically for OpenClaw workflows. The data flywheel this creates may be unbeatable.
Alibaba targets $100B in AI and cloud revenue over five years, backed by $53B infrastructure spend. CEO Eddie Wu says tight app-model integration is the critical priority — and Alibaba's structural advantages over OpenAI and Google may prove him right.
Alibaba unveils Wukong, a multi-agent enterprise platform integrated into DingTalk's 20M+ organizations. With sandboxed execution, identity controls, and Qwen-powered agents, it's the most direct commercial competitor to OpenClaw yet — from the country that just banned OpenClaw in government.
Alibaba is rolling out enterprise AI agents built on its Qwen model through DingTalk, with plans to integrate Taobao and Alipay. Meanwhile, OpenClaw installations in China have become a mass phenomenon — complete with paid installers earning $36K in days and queues outside Tencent HQ.
Chinese tech hubs in Shenzhen and Wuxi are offering free housing, rent-free offices, and subsidies up to $720,000 for OpenClaw startups. Meanwhile, central regulators ban it from government agencies. The contradiction defines AI policy in 2026.
Chinese authorities are ordering banks, SOEs, and government agencies to remove OpenClaw from office devices over data security fears — even as the country's tech giants race to build on it.
China's 15th Five-Year Plan commits ¥1 trillion to AI development with 30% earmarked for autonomous agents. Here's what this means for the global AI agent ecosystem and OpenClaw users.