# AI developer tools

Baidu Hits Back at Tencent’s ‘Lobster’ Push — Free Cloud Deployments Turn Developer War Physical

Baidu staged a high-profile, free on-site installation event for OpenClaw to counter Tencent’s recent promotional push, offering a heavily discounted first-month cloud-and-tooling bundle to capture AI developers. The tactic illustrates how cloud competition has shifted from commodity IaaS pricing into offline, developer-focused acquisition and model-tooling bundling, but raises doubts about sustainability, churn, and security.