China’s ‘AI tigers’ see shares surge after Nvidia CEO touts OpenClaw as ‘next ChatGPT’
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Chinese AI companies saw significant stock gains after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang praised OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent (a program that can perform tasks independently), as "the next ChatGPT." Companies like MiniMax and Zhipu, which are among China's leading AI developers building large language models (AI systems trained on huge amounts of text to understand and generate language), have integrated OpenClaw into their products and are launching their own versions based on it.
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Original source: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/18/china-ai-zhipu-minimax-after-nvidia-jensen-huang-openclaw-comments.html
First tracked: March 18, 2026 at 04:00 AM
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