China's raising OpenClaw lobsters. India's testing the waters first
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Last Friday, Razorpay CEO Harshil Mathur hosted 150 founders at Razorpay's Koramangala headquarters — not to talk payments but to let them showcase what they'd built with OpenClaw, the open-source AI agent taking the world by storm.
The same week, thousands were queuing outside Baidu and Tencent offices in China just to get the software installed.
The open source agent AI platform is the same but the two approaches are quite different. China is deploying OpenClaw at a scale and speed no other country is matching. India, meanwhile, is moving carefully, deliberately, problem-first.
So here's the question: is India behind China on OpenClaw? And is speed is the only thing that matters in the AI race?
Read Inc42's report here: The New Garage: OpenClaw And India’s DIY AI Agent Boom
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