Fu Sheng's New AI Agent Product Caught in "Re-skinning" Controversy: Accused of Using Open-Source Project with Removed Credits
Recently, Fu Sheng promoted his AIAgent product "Lobster 30,000" on X, claiming it now uses DeepSeekV4Pro and performs as well as Sonnet, but at a significantly lower price. However, netizens have accused him of using code from the open-source project NewApi for his product, removing copyright information, and failing to disclose the open-source address, potentially violating the open-source agreement.
Subsequently, on May 2nd, a netizen posted on social media questioning Fu Sheng, claiming that his product "Lobster 30,000" used code from the open-source project NewApi for secondary development, but removed the copyright information and did not mark the open-source address on the page, suspected of violating the obligations of the open-source agreement.
The netizen stated: "Does the head of a company not even understand open-source agreements? You took the code from the NewApi project, removed the copyright information, and I searched all over the page but couldn't find your open-source address. I thought you hadn't even come to us to avoid open-source obligations?"
Another netizen commented: "At least it's a big company, and you let your subordinates fool you with something that looks like new api."
Fu Sheng replied: "Am I that stupid?"
It is reported that "Lobster 30,000" is an AI Agent product launched by Fu Sheng, which recently announced access to DeepSeek-V4 Pro. DeepSeek-V4 was released on April 24, 2026, and is available in Pro and Flash versions.
NewApi is an open-source project on GitHub, positioned as an AI large model aggregation gateway, based on the secondary development of One API. Its core function is to uniformly convert the APIs of large models from different manufacturers such as OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek into a standard OpenAI-compatible format. The project is open-source under the MIT protocol, allowing free use, modification, and commercialization, but requires retaining the copyright statement and original license. The project has received nearly 20,000 stars on GitHub.
Currently, neither Fu Sheng nor Cheetah Mobile has made a formal response to the specific accusation of "removing copyright information."