China’s AI Lobster Craze Comes With Claws

Over the past week, Chinese social media has been gripped by a single obsession — how to raise a lobster. Not in a tank, but on your laptop.

Fervor for OpenClaw, the AI agent created by Austrian developer Peter Steinberger, has consumed China in recent weeks, emerging from a niche, nerdy tool sporting a crustacean logo to a national obsession. The program sits on top of a large language model and does more than just chat — it takes action. Users can ask it to comb through emails, book travel, text your significant other “good morning” — or even trade crypto, depending on how much access you grant it.