# Digital Employee

Beyond the ‘Lobster’ Hype: China’s Strategic Pivot Toward the ‘AI Employee’

DeepEx founder Zhao Jiehui argues that the AI industry is shifting from general-purpose models, or 'lobsters,' toward 'AI Employees' integrated into specific business roles. The primary challenge for this transition is not model size, but the ability to transform proprietary, unstructured industrial data into logical knowledge systems.