{"id":18548,"date":"2026-04-06T09:31:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T09:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/chinese-ai-rivals-clash-over-anthropics-openclaw-exit-amid-global-token-crunch\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T09:31:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T09:31:28","slug":"chinese-ai-rivals-clash-over-anthropics-openclaw-exit-amid-global-token-crunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/chinese-ai-rivals-clash-over-anthropics-openclaw-exit-amid-global-token-crunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese AI rivals clash over Anthropic\u2019s OpenClaw exit amid global token crunch"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chinese tech companies are engaged in a public war of words as they compete to capitalise on US start-up Anthropic’s decision to pull its industry-leading Claude models from open-source AI agent tool OpenClaw.<\/p>\n

The development comes as AI agents have triggered a huge increase in demand for AI tokens – the core metric of AI usage – raising questions about the long-term ability of industry players to meet this demand amid a growing global crunch in computational power.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Anthropic announced that Claude subscriptions would no longer cover usage on third-party tools like OpenClaw, a move it said was needed to “prioritise existing customers” of its own products.<\/p>\n

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Chinese companies MiniMax and Xiaomi quickly weighed in, encouraging users to switch to their own token subscription plans instead.<\/p>\n

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Several AI applications can be seen on a smartphone screen, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, Meta AI, Grok and DeepSeek. Photo: dpa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

In a post on X, Shanghai-based MiniMax accused Anthropic of hurting the AI community by introducing its restrictions.<\/p>\n

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“There will be more good ideas of how to use AI coming from outside the AI labs than in them,” MiniMax said. “Limiting AI subs to first-party products kills these ideas before they are ever born.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chinese tech companies are engaged in a public war of words as they compete to capitalise on US start-up Anthropic’s decision to pull its industry-leading Claude models from open-source AI agent tool OpenClaw. The development comes as AI agents have triggered a huge increase in demand for AI tokens – the core metric of AI…<\/p>\n

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