Let's start with the important stuff: we have partnered with Zhihu and will be holding an offline event in Beijing this weekend focused on OpenClaw. Of course, we will also help you install OpenClaw on-site.

Registration Link: https://luma.com/h46z65cy

We hope those who are interested will sign up first before coming back to read this post.

On March 14, we will be holding an "AI Debate Summit" in Beijing Chaoyang District. Instead of a simple one-way lecture, we have invited some outspoken guests to discuss this somewhat anxiety-inducing topic together. We welcome those who are willing to sit down and seriously consider this matter to join us.

Why Are We Holding This Event

There's something that, once it appears, you can't pretend it doesn't exist.

You can choose not to use it, you can say it's not mature yet, but you will see more and more people starting to use it. You can say "let's wait and see," but by the time you make up your mind, people around you have already sent three emails, written two reports, and developed an app using it.

This thing is OpenClaw.

OpenClaw is just a name, an entry point, a moment when many people truly feel "AI is starting to act on my behalf." Before it, AI was something you asked questions and it gave you answers, essentially you were still in control. But after it, you just need to give it a task, and it will find a way to accomplish it on its own. How many steps it took, how many decisions it made in between, you may not necessarily know, and you don't need to know.

From "help me think" to "help me do," what lies in between is not just a technological step, but a whole set of questions about "who am I, what am I doing, and whose responsibility is it." When AI was still just a chatbot, you could set these questions aside. But now, as it starts working for you, you have to think about them.

This is not the first time we have faced this situation.

Every now and then, something appears that makes you feel like the way the world operates has changed, and you haven't quite figured out what the new rules are. It was the same when the Internet came, and it was the same when smartphones came. Every time, some people say "this time is different," and every time, some people say "it's not a big deal."

Interestingly, these two groups of people often don't have a clear right or wrong.

So we want to set up a stage for these two groups of people to sit together, speak face to face, and confront each other. Not to determine a winner, but because the issue itself deserves serious consideration, not the kind of casual engagement seen in social media likes and article shares, but a face-to-face, interactive, and rebuttable kind of seriousness.

This topic doesn't just belong to the tech community. It also belongs to those who use AI to create music, those wondering if their jobs are at risk, and those who are curious but haven't yet formed a clear opinion. The arrival of the Agent era is a technological event, but also a cultural event, a question about the relationship between humans and tools, humans and efficiency, and humans and meaning.

The "Lobster Claw Debate" is one such place.

What Kind of Event Will This Be

If the question of "why hold this event" is due to the collective anxiety brought about by technology, then "how to conduct it" is our response to this anxiety.

To be honest, in the early stages of event preparation, we debated for a long time about the format of the event. We noticed that many recent events have been organized around tech enthusiasts and developers, inviting them to share the evolution of underlying architectures, the iteration of parameter models, with an audience of similarly knowledgeable professionals taking notes, trying to seize every potential trend.

Such hardcore technical discussions are certainly essential, but they seem unable to address a more common issue: what does AI really mean for those who don't code, don't train large models, but are genuinely caught up in this technological wave?

Movement Insight's mission has never been to explain the logic of code but to try to break down how technology reshapes our lives. We hope to create a more inclusive space, letting AI descend from its pedestal, enter the realm of daily life, and become part of every individual swept up in the era.

Therefore, we didn't limit our focus to the tech community but invited insiders from various industries, choosing a slightly sharp, even somewhat painful topic: In the AI era, will not engaging in Openclaw lead to obsolescence?

The reason we want to use a debate format is that we believe one-way indoctrination will only create information silos, and clashes of viewpoints can stimulate real thinking. We don't want bland correctness; we want to hear the most genuine anxieties, sharpest rebuttals, and deepest logical confrontations. Perhaps in a single "debate" moment, your understanding of the world will be completely restructured.

We've brought together some opinionated individuals — those involved in AI, investment, AI-driven content creation, and researching the matter — to present their genuine assessments, rather than spouting the cliché phrases of "the future is already here, embrace change."

We want to hear them discuss: What exactly is OpenClaw? Is it a groundbreaking infrastructure that will become obsolete if not explored? Or is it just another hype cycle that will cause anxiety for three months and then fade into obscurity?

We must be prepared to accept both answers. However, before we reach a conclusion, feel free to engage in a debate.

But the spotlight of this event is not solely on the stage guests. Apart from the guest debates, we will also hand the microphone to everyone present. You can directly ask the guests questions, even challenge their views. In the subsequent "Open Mic" session, you can share your interesting AI experiments or simply express your confusion and bewilderment in this rapidly evolving world.

Due to the limited time of the live event, friends interested in the Open Mic session can choose to participate during registration to help us estimate the number of presentations. However, we cannot guarantee that all registered friends will have a speaking slot. It will be first come, first served on-site.

If you haven't yet raised your own lobster, feel free to bring your laptop to the event, where Amazon Web Services professionals will guide you through deploying your own OpenClaw.

The world is changing so rapidly that no one dares to claim they "understand" it. In that case, why don't we sit down, let our guard down, and engage in a lively debate to measure the boundaries of this new world.

About InnoBeat

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Initially, we focused on the undercurrents of financial technology. As the gears of technological revolution turned faster, we realized that the old order was collapsing, and a new landscape was being redrawn. If finance is the society's bloodstream, then technology is the force reshaping its bones.

We see that the previous generation of internet giants, if not at the AI table, will only become a backdrop in the era's narrative; we see the new overlords rising steadily on the staircase of large models; more importantly, we witness capital, technology, and ambition swiftly redistributing the world's resources and discourse at an unprecedented pace.

What Dōngchái wants to do is to become a trustworthy mirror in this chaotic era of spiraling changes, capturing these profound transformations.

But recording is just the first step. What we aspire to is for Dōngchái to not only be a content platform but also a community. In the future, we will continue to launch more unconventional offline events like the "Lobster Wrestling Summit," building a space for youthful, forward-thinking, and highly tasteful exchanges.

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