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Tencent's account has become the top sponsor of OpenClaw (@openclaw), with Tencent Cloud also appearing at the top.
The OpenClaw GitHub Sponsors page was updated today, with Tencent (@TencentAI_News) appearing at the top of the sponsor list; Tencent Cloud also appeared at the top, alongside OpenAI and Baidu.
⚠️It should be noted that Tencent Cloud, which appeared at the top today, is not the same entity as Tencent Light Cloud, which appeared yesterday; they belong to different brands under Tencent. Within a few days, three different Tencent accounts have appeared on the sponsor list.
Previously, Tencent caused controversy in the community due to the large-scale porting of OpenClaw skill packages to the SkillHub platform. When founder Peter Steinberger retweeted the news of Tencent Light Cloud's sponsorship, he commented, "love a good redemption arc."
💸Since GitHub does not disclose the specific real-time deduction amount, the following amounts are estimates based on the common GitHub Sponsors enterprise/personal tiers and recent market rumors⬇️ (usually following a weighted average of the amount combined with the duration of sponsorship, but the maintainer has the final right to manually pin and sort these amounts):