A few days ago, Tencent founder Ma Huateng forwarded news about Tencent's free installation of OpenClaw in his circle of friends, saying bluntly, "I didn't expect it to be so popular." It is reported that Tencent Cloud launched OpenClaw free installation service at its Shenzhen headquarters on March 6. There was a long queue in the square. In just a few hours, hundreds of OpenClaw were deployed to Tencent Cloud servers.
Participants include developers, retired technology enthusiasts, students and other groups of people. The age range of users ranges from 2 to 60 years old. There are many parents who help their children to receive services on their behalf. The grand occasion is ridiculed as "comparable to the New Year's profit distribution".
Tencent's free installation service not only provides software deployment, but also covers one-stop support such as model configuration, IM channel opening, and skill unlocking.
Originally, e-commerce platforms charged hundreds of yuan for door-to-door installation services, but Tencent opened it as a public welfare service, further igniting user enthusiasm.
OpenClaw (formerly known as Clawdbot, Moltbot) is an AI agent that can be deployed on a personal computer. It is designed with a "lobster" icon, so it is affectionately called a lobster.
Its core is to convert natural language instructions into actual computer operations, allowing AI to do the work for you in just one sentence.
Different from traditional chat AI that only provides suggestions, it can autonomously complete tasks such as file operations, browser automation, data capture, form creation, etc. It is a key leap from dialogue to execution. After going online, the GitHub star number exceeded 240,000, making it one of the fastest growing open source AI projects.
After OpenClaw became popular, Tencent Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, JD Cloud, Huoshan Engine, Baidu Smart Cloud, etc. successively announced the launch of OpenClaw cloud minimalist deployment and a full set of cloud services, and users can complete the installation with one click.