{"id":17387,"date":"2026-03-16T21:27:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T21:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/tencent-sponsors-openclaw-after-creators-complaints-of-copying\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T21:27:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T21:27:24","slug":"tencent-sponsors-openclaw-after-creators-complaints-of-copying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/tencent-sponsors-openclaw-after-creators-complaints-of-copying\/","title":{"rendered":"Tencent sponsors OpenClaw after creator\u2019s complaints of copying"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/og_image_scmp_generic\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/03\/16\/6c30750a-6a65-4bd8-9cb3-ac9b25c03412_303fff43.jpg?itok=QfSbJrsm&amp;v=1773672075\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" readability=\"5.9940119760479\">Chinese tech giant <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Tencent Holdings<\/span> has become a sponsor of <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">OpenClaw<\/span> after public complaints from the creator of the popular open-source artificial intelligence agent.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Tencent and its cloud computing unit officially became sponsors of OpenClaw on Monday, as featured on the project&rsquo;s GitHub page alongside OpenAI and Chinese AI giant Baidu. The GitHub page has a section that lists the project&rsquo;s sponsors.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Earlier on Sunday, an account belonging to Tencent Cloud Lighthouse &ndash; the tech giant&rsquo;s team offering &ldquo;one-click&rdquo; OpenClaw set-up for developers &ndash; appeared as a sponsor of the project on GitHub.<\/p>\n<div data-qa=\"InlineAdSlot-Container\" class=\"css-zl1inp e11v3ui14\">\n<div class=\"e11v3ui10 e11v3ui13 css-1umbx1w e1flwkbl0\" data-qa=\"AdSlot-Container\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The move came after Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw, last Thursday publicly complained about Tencent copying skills from his project without supporting it financially or technically.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Tencent responded to Steinberger&rsquo;s post on X by saying that the company&rsquo;s SkillHub community was a local mirror for Chinese developers that had credited OpenClaw&rsquo;s ClawHub as the original source of the skills.<\/p>\n<div data-qa=\"InlineAdSlot-Container\" class=\"css-zl1inp e11v3ui14\">\n<div class=\"e11v3ui10 e11v3ui13 css-1xd1hm8 e1flwkbl0\" data-qa=\"AdSlot-Container\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Shenzhen-based company added that its team members had contributed code to the open-source project and pledged to &ldquo;become a better sponsor&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Tencent sponsors OpenClaw after creator&rsquo;s complaints of copying<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings has become a sponsor of OpenClaw after public complaints from the creator of the popular open-source artificial intelligence agent. Tencent and its cloud computing unit officially became sponsors of OpenClaw on Monday, as featured on the project&rsquo;s GitHub page alongside OpenAI and Chinese AI giant Baidu. The GitHub page has&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/tencent-sponsors-openclaw-after-creators-complaints-of-copying\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Tencent sponsors OpenClaw after creator\u2019s complaints of copying&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}