Tencent QClaw international beta

Tencent has opened an international beta for QClaw, its consumer AI agent app, starting with users in the United States, Canada, Japan, Singapore, and South Korea. (tencent.com) QClaw is Tencent’s packaged version of OpenClaw, an open-source system that lets an AI assistant live inside chat apps and carry out tasks on a user’s own computer. The international app runs on Windows and macOS, and Tencent says setup takes about three minutes. (github.com) (tencent.com) In the new beta, users can send commands from WhatsApp or Telegram on a phone and have them sync to a desktop client for execution in real time. Tencent says the first international wave is limited to 20,000 slots. (tencent.com) (helpnetsecurity.com) Tencent says QClaw’s China public beta launched in March 2026 and passed 1 million users in its first 10 days. The company also said it shipped more than 80 feature iterations in the first month of that China release. (technode.com) (tencent.com) The product is aimed at people who do not want to configure servers, terminals, or application programming interfaces before using an agent. Tencent says users can download the app, register, scan a quick-response code, and start using prebuilt agents for travel planning, tax filing, ticket purchases, fitness routines, and job applications. (tencent.com) (helpnetsecurity.com) That packaging is the point of the launch: OpenClaw already supports a long list of chat channels, including WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Signal, and iMessage, but it has largely been a self-hosted tool for technical users. QClaw turns that model into a Tencent-managed consumer app tied to mainstream messaging habits. (github.com) (docs.openclaw.ai) (tencent.com) Tencent says QClaw runs on the user’s device and processes data within the user environment, while also offering access to multiple large language models and custom model connections through application programming interface keys. The app includes a security layer called Claw Gateway that Tencent says is designed to detect malicious instructions and “skill poisoning” during agent operations. (tencent.com) (helpnetsecurity.com) Tencent is also using QClaw to show how agent software can be built with agents: the company said the international version was developed in five days and that 99% of its code was generated by QClaw itself. That claim has been repeated in multiple reports, though Tencent’s English announcement does not include the figure. (forbes.com) (oodaloop.com) (tencent.com) The international beta turns a China-first agent into a test of whether consumer AI assistants can spread through the same chat apps people already use every day. For now, Tencent is keeping the rollout small, but it has moved QClaw out of China and onto global messaging rails. (tencent.com)