Baidu "Lobster" Family Bucket Debuts, Several Lobster Products Launched, and the Home Use XiaoDu Shrimp Is Also Here

On March 17, at Baidu’s AIDAY Lobster special event, Baidu’s “Lobster” family-bucket officially debuted, including the launch of multiple new products such as “Cloud Lobster,” “Mobile Lobster,” and “Secure Lobster,” along with the release of a brand-new in-house “Desktop Lobster” product DuMate and the world’s first “Home Mini Lobster.” Baidu also announced the rollout of multiple new Skills. Among them, Baidu Search Skill downloads exceeded 45,000 times—making it the official search engine Skill with the highest global download volume, becoming “a must-have for Lobster.”

Baidu Group Executive Vice President and President of Baidu Intelligent Cloud’s AI Cloud business group, Shen Dou, said that from OpenClaw’s breakout success, three possible trends can be seen. First, at the application layer, a flourishing Skills ecosystem will make traditional software applications even more fragmented. Second, at the model layer, interaction data from OpenClaw further improves model capabilities and other abilities, forming a positive feedback loop of self-enhancement. Finally, OpenClaw still has plenty of room to improve; in the future, it will break through more barriers, form a more integrated ecosystem, and deliver lower costs with better results. He also believes that Search Skills will become the foundational infrastructure for future intelligent agent applications. Today’s Baidu Search not only maintains its advantages in the Chinese-language domain, but also significantly improves the indexing of global content. We will continue optimizing Search Skills to support the development of the OpenClaw ecosystem.

That day, Baidu officially announced the launch of the desktop AI agent DuMate. As the employees’ “second brain + execution assistant,” DuMate centers on personalized intelligent understanding and deeply integrates users’ habits with the enterprise knowledge system. It supports local and cloud multi-format file batch processing, conversion between formats, intelligent data analysis and processing, and cross-application automation—enabling end-to-end office automation. In coordination with enterprise-grade security governance and control mechanisms, it ensures that data flows are compliant and controllable. DuMate helps AI truly enter the workplace—not just answering questions, but understanding intent, actively executing tasks, and collaborating efficiently—becoming an indispensable intelligent partner for every employee.

Also released that day, the world’s first “Home Mini Lobster” deeply integrates OpenClaw’s closed-loop capabilities for complex tasks into home scenarios, delivering an experience that is ready to use anytime and anywhere. The Xiaodu Mini Lobster has three major features: “ready to use at any time, usable by the whole family, usable in closed-loop fashion.” Users don’t need to open the app—just say “Xiaodu, xiaodu, let the mini lobster help me,” and it can be awakened by voice. It also supports sharing across the whole family, making AI within reach. More importantly, the Xiaodu Mini Lobster will achieve “end-to-end connection of online + offline tasks,” automatically completing complex tasks across devices and across applications.

In the Skills category, on the same day, Baidu Miaoda released the world’s first OpenClaw application development Skill—“Miaoda App Builder” (Miaoda Skill). This is also the industry’s first time that professional application development capabilities have been packaged into a skill set that can be called by intelligent agents, and it is opened as a Skill to the OpenClaw ecosystem—connecting the final mile of lobster revenue generation. Meanwhile, Baidu FAMou also released the world’s first algorithm self-evolving Skills—Baidu FAMou Skills. Users can easily call upon the self-evolution capabilities of the FAMou algorithms, offering experiment management and visual dashboards, helping users efficiently complete complex algorithm experiments and automatically find the globally optimal solution. Baidu Intelligent Cloud’s KeYue launched four marketing Skills in the first batch, including the launch of the first domestic OpenClaw enterprise-level marketing digital employee solution.

With OpenClaw continuing to go viral, major technology companies have been rolling out new ways to play. As one of the earliest cloud service providers in China to support deploying OpenClaw, Baidu Intelligent Cloud first introduced deployment solutions on January 28 this year, and before the Spring Festival it successively launched lightweight cloud deployment services such as LS, as well as Qianfan OpenClaw, while also supporting one-click calling and experiencing OpenClaw through the Baidu App. In addition, Baidu Qianfan launched Coding Plan, reducing users’ lobster-raising token costs; since it went live for more than a month, the growth in daily subscription user numbers has approached nearly a hundredfold.

To further lower the barrier of “Lobster” for user experience, on March 11, Baidu Intelligent Cloud released the “zero-deployment” product “DuClaw”—users only need to subscribe to the service to directly use the “mini lobster.” On March 12, Baidu also launched the world’s first mobile lobster application “Red Finger Operator.” During that day’s event, Red Finger Operator announced an official rebrand to RedClaw, allowing users’ lobster-raising experience to extend to mobile—after installing and registering the Red Finger Operator app, users can directly command the “mobile lobster” to execute tasks.

It is worth mentioning that on the day DuClaw was released on March 11, Baidu also held a “Lobster Fair” event in Beijing. Offline, it helped users install and deploy for free, attracting nearly 1,000 attendees. OpenClaw’s founder, Peter Steinberger, also liked the event on social media and shouted “Amazing.” At present, Baidu Search has become a mandatory-installed Skill for “Lobster” users. According to OpenClaw’s official Skills store, ClawHub, with over 45,000 downloads, it has become the top globally downloaded search engine official skills plugin on the platform and has been featured in the official community’s curated recommendations (Popular Skills).

Shen Dou said that Baidu’s mission is “to make the complex world simpler with technology,” and OpenClaw is undoubtedly an important direction toward “making the complex world simpler.” The breakout popularity of OpenClaw during this year’s Spring Festival has enabled more people to truly see intelligent agents. Baidu Intelligent Cloud is committed to continuously launching more OpenClaw product solutions with low thresholds and low costs, and also—based on our own products—introducing more great Skills to contribute to the entire OpenClaw ecosystem.