Insider: The top executives of Baidu are also keeping an eye on OpenClaw.

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17/03/2026
On the afternoon of March 17th, at the Baidu AI Open Day event held today, Song Lu, Deputy General Manager of Baidu Intelligent Cloud Basic Public Cloud Department, stated that OpenClaw is the closest point for future intelligent enterprises to connect with users. The emergence of OpenClaw has overturned some of our past understandings of intelligent entities, so currently OpenClaw has become a new product that the highest level bosses within Baidu are paying attention to. "Prior to OpenClaw, we have always attached great importance to the application of intelligent entities. OpenClaw is a typical application of the Agent framework, so naturally, it is highly valued internally." According to Huang Rongsheng, Chief Architect and Chairman of the Technical Committee at Xiaodu Technology, likening OpenClaw to Linux is not an exaggeration. This is a trend for the next ten years or even longer, and Baidu will definitely do its best to participate in it.