At Baidu's AI Open Day event held on March 17, Shen Dou, Executive Vice President of Baidu Group and President of Baidu Intelligent Cloud Business Group, shared insights comparing the viral spread of OpenClaw during this year's Spring Festival with last year's DeepSeek phenomenon. He noted that OpenClaw's dissemination was "a few days slower than we had anticipated."

Shen Dou revealed that even before last year's Spring Festival, Baidu had already detected signs of OpenClaw's impending popularity and had undertaken substantial internal preparations. He analyzed that OpenClaw presents significantly higher usability challenges compared to standard chatbots, making it more difficult for average users to adopt smoothly.

According to Shen Dou, even within the AI technology community, using OpenClaw effectively requires a certain level of technical proficiency, creating an implicit barrier for general users. He emphasized that while enhancing large model capabilities is an important first step, the true key to expanding new frontiers in human-computer collaboration lies in lowering the experience threshold and achieving broader technological accessibility.