# CoPaw
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After the 'Shrimp' Boom: Why China’s Tech Giants Are Racing to Build the AI Pond
A social craze for DIY AI agents in China — nicknamed “raising shrimp” — is cooling as early users uninstall experimental tools, but major tech firms have mobilized in a compressed timeline to deploy cloud‑hosted agent products. Companies are not competing over individual apps but over the long‑term platform advantages: cloud compute and token monetization, first‑touch user entry points, and ecosystem distribution rules. The outcome will determine who captures the economics and control of everyday AI tasking.
Alibaba Open-Sources CoPaw Agent to Seed a Localised AI-Agent Ecosystem
Alibaba Cloud has open-sourced CoPaw, a desktop AI-agent toolkit that enables custom Skills, local-model integration and native connections to multiple messaging platforms, with one-click local or cloud deployment. The move aims to accelerate enterprise adoption of customised agents while funnelling successful deployments toward Alibaba’s cloud and Qianwen models.