WeChat meets OpenClaw: Tencent launches tool to bring AI agent to app

Tencent has launched a tool that will bring an AI agent directly into WeChat – China’s most popular messaging app that has over one billion monthly active users even as the company pushes into one of the hottest battlegrounds in Chinese technology right now. The tool, called ClawBot, integrates Tencent’s WeChat platform with OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent capable of performing tasks on a user’s behalf, according to a report by news agency Reuters. ClawBot appears as a contact within WeChat, which means users can open a chat and start sending commands to the AI agent.

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