Tencent Launches International Beta for QClaw AI Agent

Tencent has launched an international beta for QClaw, an artificial intelligence agent developed by the company's PC Manager team. The product is positioned for non-technical users and allows deployment and operation of AI agents through email and messaging applications such as WhatsApp or Telegram without requiring terminal commands or API configuration. The company described QClaw as part of a broader push into AI agents and its first consumer-grade agent built on the OpenClaw framework. Tencent said the international version was developed in five days and that 99% of its code was generated autonomously by QClaw itself. Peter Steinberger, founder of OpenClaw and currently at OpenAI, endorsed the launch in a repost on X. According to Tencent's release, Steinberger said the company had worked with the OpenClaw project on evaluations to improve harness performance, as well as fixes and updates to the open-source repository. QClaw includes long-term memory features and a security module called Gateway, which Tencent described as monitoring AI agent activity in real time to detect malicious instructions. Agent operations and local file processing take place on the user's device, while inference calls are routed through selected model providers. The beta is currently free and includes 20,000 early access slots. Tencent said the Chinese version, launched in March, reached more than one million users within its first ten days.