Luo Fuli of Xiaomi (小米) on Anthropic's blacklisting of OpenClaw: The real way forward isn't cheaper tokens!

Luo Fuli's critique

It has been reported that Luo Fuli, a senior executive at Xiaomi (小米), pushed back against Anthropic's decision to blacklist a third‑party tool called OpenClaw, arguing that the industry's instinct to tame risks by throttling access or lowering token prices misses the point. Luo said the focus should be on engineering safer models and stronger system‑level controls, not just economic barriers to usage. Short answer? Cheaper tokens are not a security strategy.

Why this matters now

Anthropic has been moving aggressively on AI security — launching Project Glasswing with a dozen major infrastructure partners and previewing the Mythos model, which it says found thousands of high‑risk zero‑day vulnerabilities across mainstream OSes and libraries. It has been reported that Anthropic offered a $100 million usage quota during preview and set post‑preview access prices by token on major clouds. Those moves reflect a broader industry scramble to put defensive tooling into the hands of operators. But they also raise questions: who gets access, and on what terms?

Broader implications: safety, supply chains and geopolitics

Luo’s comments land amid growing U.S.–China tensions over critical tech supply chains, export controls and cloud access. When cloud providers, chipmakers and security vendors align on access restrictions, Chinese device and software makers worry about asymmetric limits on experimentation and remediation. Reportedly, firms on both sides want faster security fixes — but the debate now is whether gated access or open collaboration will better reduce systemic risk. Can safety be engineered without leaving whole ecosystems behind? Xiaomi’s warning is that the answer matters for both competitiveness and national resilience.