On March 12, the data capture controversy surrounding the open source project OpenClaw and Tencent’s AI platform SkillHub attracted industry attention.Peter Steinberger, the founder of OpenClaw, the "Father of Lobster", publicly pointed out that Tencent crawled its platform data on a large scale without prior communication, causing official servers to face cost pressures of up to five digits.
In the face of developers' doubts, Tencent officials quickly responded, emphasizing that SkillHub processed 180GB of data traffic for users in the first week of launch, but actually only initiated 1GB of non-concurrent requests to the official source site, which objectively significantly eased the operating load of the original project. at the same time,Relevant representatives from Tencent expressed their apologies for the sudden increase in server load, and revealed that there are currently many active code contributors in the team, and they are willing to serve as a sponsor to provide continuous technical and financial support for the ecosystem in the future.
In response to Tencent's data explanation and cooperation intention, Steinberg responded by saying that he recognized the positive role of the mirror platform in sharing traffic, but the core premise of the cooperation between the two parties should be based on prior communication. Currently, further negotiations are underway on related technical pressure reduction solutions and potential official sponsorship matters.