AI & Tech

liáng shèng / liáng zǐ

DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng's internet nickname slid from 'Saint Liang' (梁圣) to 'Liang-zi' (梁子) — and even '梁贼' — after a price hike, a perfect example of how Chinese internet honorifics are conditional.

AI shuǐ guǒ

A trend where netizens used AI to generate absurd, anthropomorphic-fruit micro-dramas (短剧) — bananas cheating, grapes seeking revenge, fruits in love triangles — a collective genre of荒诞 dog-blood soap opera made possible by AI video tools.

yǎng lóng xiā

Chinese netizens call running the OpenClaw AI agent 'raising a lobster' — a pun on the red lobster logo and the feeling of nurturing a finicky digital pet.

rén rén dōu shì dǎo yǎn

ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 AI video model can generate cinematic multi-shot videos from a single text prompt. The catchphrase became the bittersweet slogan of the AI filmmaking era.

jī qì rén dà luàn dòu

Four rival robot companies competed on the 2026 Spring Festival Gala stage, turning the world's biggest TV event into a corporate cage match that the internet went wild over.

jù shēn zhì néng

具身智能 (jù shēn zhì néng) means 'embodied AI' — artificial intelligence with a physical body that learns by acting in the real world. It's the tech buzzword that broke out of academia into mainstream Chinese conversation in 2025.

yáo yáo lǐng xiān

A phrase that started as a corporate slogan and became a national meme: 'far ahead' — used to describe any product, person, or achievement that is unmistakably number one, often with a mix of genuine pride and ironic humor.