ShangAI #1 - OpenClaw
Hey Lobsters, welcome to this 1st edition of ShanghAI.
The goal of this weekly newsletter is to share my latest discoveries on Chinese AI models, and how I use their powerful abilities as well their prices to scale businesses.
Each week, I will share you free tools examples that you can try to build by yourself and see if they can help your business grow.
Use these unknown models without living in China or speaking Chinese can be a tough task. Good news ? I am, and I can help you to reach them.
All of this, readable within 1 minute, because I know you guys are busy.
Today, let’s dive in the trendiest lobster restaurant chain, OpenClaw.
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DISCOVER
🌎 What is OpenClaw ?
Turing College
OpenClaw just hit the #1 spot on GitHub this week, and the March 25, 2026, v3.12 update is why everyone is losing their minds.
While the Silicon Valley giants are busy nerfing their chatbots with safety layers, OpenClaw has evolved into a full-blown autonomous Agent Runtime that actually acts instead of just talking.
The new "ClawHub" marketplace just went live with over 3,000 specialized skills, allowing these agents to navigate browsers, manage local file systems, and execute complex code in sandboxes.
It’s essentially the first "Jarvis" for the masses, and with NVIDIA’s recent NemoClaw integration, you can now run these high-level reasoning chains on local consumer GPUs for a fraction of the cost of a ChatGPT subscription.
USE
Leverage Chinese AIs : Multi-Agent Arbitrage
ZBrain
If you are currently running an AI/SaaS business without much love money, the play here is "Multi-Agent Arbitrage" to undercut expensive SaaS fees.
By using OpenClaw to orchestrate a hybrid model strategy, you can deploy a 24/7 technical support or lead-gen engine for local businesses at a 99% profit margin.
You set the agent to handle 90% of routine logic using DeepSeek V3 - which is currently sitting at a dirt-cheap $0.20 per million tokens - and only ping GPT-5.4-mini for the final quality check.
You are essentially automating a five-person operations team for less than $15 a month in API costs.
ACCESS
The "No-Auth" Secret Weapon
The only thing stopping most people from using OpenClaw is the massive "China Wall" - the annoying Chinese phone number requirements, VPN lags, and broken setups that waste hours of your time.
I’ve spent the last days testing a specific workaround that lets you bypass the entire verification process and get the English interface running on your phone or laptop in under five minutes.
I’m sharing the "No-Phone" setup guide and my personal list of pre-configured automation shortcuts in next week’s edition.
Until next week,
The ShanghAI Guy
