A staff member rests as children play games at a RedClaw AI promotion booth set up outside a shopping mall in Beijing on March 28, 2026.
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On a recent weekday, around 50 people gathered outside the headquarters of a Chinese mobile internet company, waiting to get help with installing an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant.
The scene in Beijing, China’s capital, was repeated for days at several events and was also seen in the southern technology hub Shenzhen in March, as engineers helped crowds trying to set up the popular AI “agent” OpenClaw on their laptops.
Published – May 06, 2026 01:51 pm IST
