Tencent has launched an international beta for QClaw, an artificial intelligence product developed by its PC Manager team, which builds the company’s desktop utility software used by hundreds of millions of users in China.
QClaw is positioned for non-technical users. Tencent said the product allows users to deploy and operate AI agents through email and messaging applications such as WhatsApp or Telegram without requiring terminal commands, API configuration, or other setup steps.
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 is built on the OpenClaw open-source framework, which Tencent said it adapted with a consumer-facing layer to reduce deployment barriers. The product supports multiple large language models and allows custom model integration through API keys.
Tencent said QClaw includes long-term memory features and a security module called Gateway, which it described as monitoring AI agent activity in real time to detect malicious instructions and related risks. According to the company, 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 for initial users. Tencent also said the Chinese version, launched in March, reached more than one million users within its first ten days.