Chinese AI Stocks Surge After Nvidia CEO’s Praise of OpenClaw Chatbot

(MENAFN) Shares of Chinese artificial intelligence companies surged on Wednesday following praise from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who highlighted AI agents and described the new chatbot OpenClaw as a significant advancement.

Speaking on Tuesday, Huang told reports that OpenClaw is “definitely the next ChatGPT,” noting that the open-source AI agent has the potential to greatly expand the range of tasks users can accomplish with artificial intelligence.

The endorsement sent several Chinese AI stocks higher. MiniMax surged 20% in Hong Kong, while Knowledge Atlas Technology, also known as Zhipu, jumped 19.5%. Both firms have recently enhanced their AI agent offerings and launched tools leveraging OpenClaw.

MiniMax and Zhipu are considered part of China’s so-called “AI tigers,” a group of startups developing large language models aimed at competing with global leaders such as OpenAI and Anthropic. Last month, Zhipu introduced its open-source GLM-5 model, promoting it as optimized for coding and extended agent-driven tasks. The company claims the model performs close to Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.5 on coding benchmarks and surpasses Google’s Gemini 3 Pro in certain areas, although these assertions have not been independently verified.

SenseTime, which has shifted from facial-recognition technology to AI software, gained 1.5% after integrating one of its AI assistants with OpenClaw. Shanghai-listed cloud computing firm UCloud Technology rose 13.2%.

Huang’s remarks also boosted wider tech stocks in Asia. South Korea’s SK Hynix climbed nearly 9%, while Samsung Electronics advanced 7.5%, following Huang’s comments that expected purchase commitments for Nvidia’s Blackwell and Vera Rubin platforms could reach $1 trillion by 2027.

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