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The AI craze that has its claws into China

The enthusiasm is spurring hopes among investors that Chinese consumers, who are often reluctant to pay for software, may finally start spending on AI services. China’s big tech groups, which typically offer the cheapest LLM tokens, have raced to offer simplified versions of OpenClaw for the mass market.

“For the past two weeks I’ve stopped working, I’ve just been testing it,” said Li Fusheng, a 47-year-old entrepreneur who hoped OpenClaw would revolutionise his industrial software business.