In China’s hyper-competitive AI arena, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has outpaced Tencent Holdings Ltd. with the sheer speed of rollouts and user growth. But the latter firm is now seizing the initiative as agentic AI fever grips the country.Tencent in just the past week introduced several signature products aimed at tapping a national enthusiasm for AI agents like OpenClaw — automated services that perform real-world tasks. They underscore an initial advantage for the WeChat operator: it’s grouped China’s entire universe of apps onto a single platform with 1.4 billion users. The company is now working to integrate its own AI...