China’s ‘AI tigers’ see shares surge after Nvidia CEO touts OpenClaw as ‘next ChatGPT’
By Lee Ying Shan
Published on March 18, 2026.
Chinese AI stocks rose following comments from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about the promise of AI agents and OpenClaw. Huang called OpenClAW a transformative step in expanding what users can achieve with AI. Major Chinese tech companies, MiniMax and Knowledge Atlas Technology, saw their shares rise by 22% and 14% respectively. These companies are part of China's "AI tigers" building large language models to compete with those of OpenAI and Anthropic. However, adoption of artificial intelligence remains uneven across sectors, with large tech firms driving the most advanced integration.
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