Chinese technology companies are battling publicly to gain an edge following Anthropic's removal of its Claude models from the open-source AI tool OpenClaw. This development highlights the fierce competition for AI usage and raises concerns over the global supply of computational power and tokens.

Chinese tech companies are engaged in a public war of words as they compete to capitalise on US start-up Anthropic’s decision to pull its industry-leading Claude models from open-source AI agent tool OpenClaw. The development comes as AI agents have triggered a huge increase in demand for AI tokens – the core metric of AI usage – raising questions about the long-term ability of industry players to meet this demand amid a growing global crunch in computational power. On Sunday, Anthropic...