AI & Tech

liáng shèng / láo liáng

DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng's internet nickname slid from 'Saint Liang' to 'Jailhouse Liang' after a price hike — a perfect example of how Chinese internet honorifics are conditional.

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.

AI shuǐ guǒ

A trend where netizens generated and shared AI images of absurd, impossible fruits — pineapples with legs, watermelon the size of houses — as a collective joke exploring AI's strengths and weaknesses.

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.

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.