With 870,000 downloads in its first week, only 1GB was transferred from top sources... "Code contribution with attribution"
Chinese IT giant Tencent has issued an official statement regarding the controversy surrounding its alleged collection of large amounts of data from ClawHub, the official skills marketplace of the open source community OpenClaw.Today, Tencent AI's official account stated its position on the controversy surrounding the bulk collection of ClawHub data raised by the OpenClaw community.
OpenClo founder criticizes Tencent for unauthorized data collection.
Earlier, some users discovered that Tencent had created a platform called 'SkillHub' and imported all of ClawHub's skill packages.
Peter Steinberger, founder of OpenClaw, has publicly expressed his frustration, revealing that he has received emails complaining that the speed limits he has imposed are "slowing to a crawl." He has also criticized Tencent for consuming massive amounts of its server resources while providing no support, claiming that ClawHub's server costs are skyrocketing into the five-figure range.
Tencent: "Optimizing Chinese Users with Local Mirrors"
Tencent described SkillHub as a "localized skills platform built on the OpenClaw ecosystem" and said it was intended to provide better availability and speed to Chinese users.
Tencent emphasized that it "has always cited ClawHub as its source," and released its first week of operational data. According to Tencent, it handled 180 GB of traffic (870,000 downloads) for users, but official ClawHub sources stated that only 1 GB was received in asynchronous requests.
Tencent also added that its team members are active code contributors (committing and submitting PRs) and want to be better supporters.
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