Participants line up near a lobster-shaped balloon to set up and install OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent, outside the Baidu offices in Beijing, China. Photo: Reuters
Fan Xinquan, a retired electronics worker in Beijing, has recently started raising a “lobster”, hoping that the AI agent he has been training can help organise his specialised industry knowledge better than chatbots like DeepSeek.
“OpenClaw can actually help you accomplish many practical things,” the 60-year-old said at a recent event hosted by AI start-up Zhipu to teach people how to use and train the AI agent, which has gone viral in China, with its various local versions earning the “lobster” nickname.
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