The core of this trend is the open-source AI agent project OpenClaw, whose unique lobster icon has made the process of deploying and tuning AI jokingly referred to as "raising lobsters" by netizens, rapidly evolving into the most phenomenal technological event of 2026.
Philip Sun, co head of Asian equity sales at Goldman Sachs, openly expressed his admiration for the speed of AI adoption in China in a memo to clients titled 'Train your own' Lobsters'. He bluntly stated, 'MiniMax has set a personal record for me - I have never worked on a project with an IPO that rose 740% in two months.'. ”
The popularity of "raising lobsters" has already surpassed the circle and truly achieved universal popularization. OpenClaw has allowed AI to break free from the cold technology circle and become an accessible intelligent tool. Netizens have even given it a fun ritual of "building nests, feeding, and taming".
The most intuitive proof appears at Tencent headquarters in Shenzhen. On March 6th, Tencent Cloud held a public welfare event for free installation of OpenClaw at the North Square of Tencent Building, which was unprecedentedly grand. At 10 o'clock in the morning, people queued up and the reservation numbers were instantly sold out. In the end, nearly a thousand people gathered in the square, and the queue stretched for a hundred meters. This comprehensive penetration from tech geeks to ordinary people is a vivid manifestation of China's ability to implement AI applications.
The reason why "raising lobsters" can ignite the whole network is that OpenClaw represents a key leap in AI development - evolving from cognitive intelligence to action intelligence (Agent). Unlike traditional chatbots, OpenClaw endows AI with "hands and feet", enabling it to automatically execute tasks and synthesize contracts based on real-time data, becoming a "personal AI assistant" for users 24/7.
The ability to implement this technology has shown enormous commercial potential to capital and the market. Industry analysis believes that this marks 2026 as the recognized "Agent Year", and the AI industry has entered a new stage. With the continuous growth of the OpenClaw ecosystem, its GitHub star count has soared to 260000, surpassing classic projects such as React and Linux, and its token consumption has become the highest on the entire platform. At the same time, many local governments have quickly followed suit, with Shenzhen and other places launching support policies such as the "Ten Lobster Measures" to accelerate the industrial landing of AI intelligent agents.
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