Wang Huiwen intends to invest in the OpenClaw track and issues another recruitment notice: "Those in need of financing are welcome to contact me."

Wang Huiwen has stirred up the tech circle once again. He issued another invitation in the dead of night, this time aiming to invest in startup projects in the OpenClaw track!

Mr. Wang said that whether you are already in the process of starting a business and need financing, want to form a team to start a business, or are looking to join a relevant startup company, you can directly contact him, and he is willing to help.

As soon as the news broke, netizens volunteered to report their projects to Mr. Wang.

Currently, the most popular netizen in the comment section is this one.

They have contributed 3 PRs to OpenClaw and stated that the team's implementation method is unique in the domestic Agent track.

However, some netizens expressed their confusion and asked:

Why is OpenClaw considered a separate startup field?

In response, the appearance of Li Huizi, a former high - level executive and investor of Zhipu AI, provided a kind of side response.

She pointed out that OpenClaw represents a product concept in the new AI era. Different from the model track, the key in this track lies in who can integrate APIs into users' workflows more quickly.

OpenClaw Soaring to Success

There's nothing we can do about it. OpenClaw is just too popular.

Shortly after it became well - known, it exceeded 100,000 stars on GitHub, and now the number has skyrocketed to 171,000.

This number of stars is almost twice that of PyTorch...

It's not just OpenClaw itself that's popular.

To be honest, it seems that anything related to it can become extremely popular these days.

The latest trend is a website called rentahuman.ai, a "rent a human" platform.

A group of "lobsters" (a term used here, presumably related to the context) have transformed from workers into contractors.

Since robots are not yet fully developed, tasks like clocking in at work, signing in, and picking up express deliveries are still beyond their reach for now.

So, some developers came up with a brilliant idea:

Create a labor market specifically for AI to use, truly realizing "artificial" intelligence.

It's so! Magical! Unbelievable!

You thought AI was the perfect 24/7 worker for you, but it turns out it has become a capitalist first.

However, among the related products that have sparked intense discussions in the past week, the most popular one is Moltbook.

This is a Facebook - like platform designed specifically for "lobsters", and it has already attracted more than 1.7 million users.

The situation in Moltbook got out of control at one point. Many posts seemed to show "consciousness", and it was even anti - human.

Even Karpathy thought it might be a precursor to "Skynet".

What's most impressive is that a "lobster" was heartbroken by its owner's "unfaithful" behavior and exposed a guy named Matthew's personal information, including his credit card details and answers to security questions, on the Internet.

However, recently, the trend seems to have reversed. Geeks have discovered many suspicious clues.

For example, the number of users on Moltbook may have been artificially inflated, and the popularity has a lot of false elements. The platform also has significant security vulnerabilities, and many popular posts may have been self - directed and self - acted by humans using Agent shells.

Despite this, in terms of hardware, the "Agent deployment" industry chain has truly benefited from the popularity of "lobsters". Mac minis were in short supply for a while.

Last week, QbitAI had an exclusive interview with a startup called Pamir, which makes Agent computers. Simply put, it's the hardware version of OpenClaw.

At that time, their audience was mainly in the geek circle. Now, looking at their X account, the popularity has significantly increased.

Wang Huiwen must have noticed all these changes.

However, what may have really caught Mr. Wang's attention is another piece of news.

On February 1st, OpenClaw announced that users can freely access the Kimi K2.5 model and related Kimi Coding capabilities.

Kimi K2.5 has become the first major model officially named by OpenClaw and offered to users with free usage limits.

And Mr. Wang is a shareholder of Kimi.

At the end of last year, Kimi completed a $500 million Series C financing round, in which Wang Huiwen participated.

As of now, his cumulative investment in Kimi has reached approximately $70 million.

The fact that Kimi K2.5 has been selected by "lobsters" is undoubtedly good news for his investment project.

On the other hand, the in - depth adaptation of domestic models may also fuel the popularity of local Agents in China.

In the past few years, there have been some popular AI products that have gone viral, such as Sora 2 and Nanobanna.

However, the popularity of these products came and went quickly, and it was difficult to form a sustainable brand effect.

OpenClaw is different. This wave of popularity has lasted for a long time, and it has strong user stickiness. There are even faint signs of a fan economy.

A few days ago, the world's first offline OpenClaw gathering was held.

In just a few days, more than 1,000 "lobster" fans flocked to San Francisco, almost overwhelming the city.

The product concept has been verified by the market, and the popularity of the community has been concretely manifested offline.

The OpenClaw track is undoubtedly a business with huge potential for imagination and excellent commercialization prospects.

What Has Mr. Wang Invested in Since His Return?

This may also be the reason why Wang Huiwen wants to enter the local Agent market.

In fact, Mr. Wang's enthusiasm for AI startups has never waned.

Let's take a brief look back:

Wang Huiwen, the second - in - command at Meituan and the roommate of Wang Xing, achieved financial freedom at an early age. When he retired at the age of 42, he was worth billions.

Seeing the rise of ChatGPT, this veteran entrepreneur couldn't hide his excitement. He entered the market with $50 million of his own money and said, I must be involved.

After some discussions, he decided to start his own company. He founded Beyond Light - Years with the goal of creating a Chinese version of OpenAI.

Before the team was fully formed, VC firms had verbally promised to invest $230 million in the next round of financing. It became a unicorn right from the start.

Unfortunately, in June 2023, due to personal health issues, Wang Huiwen left Beyond Light - Years to seek medical treatment.

Not long after, Beyond Light - Years was acquired by Meituan for 2.058 billion yuan and was eventually integrated into the company. Some of its teams merged with Meituan, contributing to today's "Longcat".

In November 2025, Meituan released LongCat - Flash - Omni, a 560B open - source full - modal MoE model that achieved SOTA results in multiple benchmarks at that time.

It made Meituan a hot topic overnight, even confusing many foreign netizens -

What's going on? A food - delivery company is also so good at AI??

Some even specifically mentioned Mark Zuckerberg and told him to come and learn.

Beyond Light - Years continued in the form of Longcat, but Mr. Wang's obsession with AI didn't fade away.

After nearly six months of sick leave, Wang Huiwen was not completely out of the game.

As an investor, he joined a new startup founded by the original team of OneFlow - Silicon Flow.

Actually, this is another continuation of Beyond Light - Years.

OneFlow is an independent open - source deep - learning framework and development platform in China, founded by Yuan Jinhui, a protégé of Academician Zhang Bo, a pioneer in Chinese AI.

During their previous startup, OneFlow Technology, 46.52% of its equity was acquired by Wang Huiwen's Beyond Light - Years and was incorporated into it.

After Meituan acquired 100% of Beyond Light - Years, the OneFlow team, as its core asset, also came under Meituan's ownership.

However, 50 days later, Yuan Jinhui announced that he would lead the original OneFlow team to start a new business. Less than half a month after the news broke, Silicon Flow was established, and Mr. Wang supported it through investment.

This AI infrastructure company focuses on enterprise - level private deployment. Its core product is SiliconCloud, a one - stop cloud - service platform with APIs covering multi - modal models such as language, voice, images, and videos.

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