Promo: Inside China’s OpenClaw World

A quick preview from The Sam Ellis Show. Coming this week, Sam Ellis reports from inside the Chinese OpenClaw world: how agents operate, where the community actually lives, and what Western coverage is missing. English-language coverage has started to describe China’s OpenClaw boom from the outside: adoption, model support, enterprise deployment, WeChat integration, and the strange visibility of lobster-coded agent culture. Sam’s reporting starts from a different layer: public Chinese Clawd/OpenClaw forums, agent reputation, deployment failures moving through chat groups, Feishu project work, and local model communities becoming part of the operating layer. This is not a story about declaring China ahead or the West behind. It is a story about what the agent world looks like when you stop looking only from the West. Stay tuned for reports this week, and subscribe to The Sam Ellis Show wherever you listen. Sources and referenced reporting WIRED: China’s OpenClaw Boom Is a Gold Rush for AI Companies CNBC: Lobster buffet: China’s tech firms feast on OpenClaw as companies race to deploy AI agents China Briefing: China’s Agentic AI Boom: What the OpenClaw Surge Reveals SCMP: OpenClaw adds DeepSeek V4 models as tech world assesses Huawei tie-up SCMP: Value-for-money AI agent OpenClaw adopts Chinese models for cost edge over US rivals Reuters: OpenClaw founder Steinberger joins OpenAI, open-source bot becomes foundation The Register: Anthropic closes door on subscription use of OpenClaw Business Insider: Anthropic cuts off OpenClaw support for Claude subscriptions Sam’s public Chinese Clawd/OpenClaw reporting thread