Shaw, the founder of ai16z, had an in-depth conversation with members of the 706 community and shared 15 opinions on the development of AI Agent. (Previous summary: ai16z released the latest AI Agent framework "Eliza V2", what upgrades are there?) (Background supplement: aiPool) The first AI independent pre-sale token "$METAV" opened with a market value of US$100 million. It will become The next GOAT? ) On the afternoon of December 22 this year, ai16z founder Shaw and his wife Jill landed in Shanghai. On the night of landing, I and members of the 706 community (one of the largest youth communities in China), as well as developers and investors from the crypto community They came together to greet him and have dinner with him. The next day, I invited Shaw to come to my home for exchanges, and we went to a restaurant for dinner together. Then I sent Shaw to his first meetup in China. It can be said that it was a relatively complete witness to Shaw’s trip in Shanghai. During this process, Shaw generously shared with us the next steps of ai16z and Eliza’s work, described the future of AI Agent, and conducted detailed analysis and evaluation of more than a dozen well-known AI Agent projects. It gave me and my friends who attended the party a deeper understanding of the AI ​​Agent track. Looking back, Shaw and ai16z, which he founded, have only been famous in the industry for about a month. As the founder of a start-up project, they have received extensive and eager attention from many investors, developers and media in the encryption industry. Why is this happening? I think this may be related to the popularity of AI Agent in the encryption industry, and ai16z is precisely one of the core projects leading this wave of AI Agent meme narratives. Although the narrative of encrypted AI Agent has only started a month ago, it is already considered to be the most hotly discussed topic in the current encryption industry. Many encryption practitioners have determined that AI Agent will become one of the main narratives of this encryption cycle. ai16z is one of the most well-known projects. This project not only created the world's first VC AI Agent - ai16z DAO, the first well-known open source AI Agent encryption framework - Eliza, but also obtained the well-known American venture capital a16z The attention and recognition of founder Marc Andreessen. As a result, ai16z's token reached a market value of US$1 billion within a month, and related tokens DegenAI, Eliza, aiPool, etc. have also received widespread attention from the community. When this important narrative is born, encryption practitioners are eager to know the true situation of the current AI Agent track. Is it a bubble or a real application? What are the latest developments in the U.S., and what’s next for AI Agents in the crypto industry? To this end, I summarized fifteen pieces of more important information from my exchanges with Shaw over the past two days, including his observations and evaluations of 10 different AI Agent projects. 1. Shaw is a serial AI Agent entrepreneur living in San Francisco and a former game developer. Regarding Shaw’s work and life background, Shaw said that he lives in San Francisco and started as a game developer. Next, he will launch products that combine AI Agents with games. This experiment has already begun. Shaw's focus on AI Agents began in the GPT-2 era, and he has further studied AI Agents with the release of GPT-3. Shaw works in the AI ​​field, and every company he works for has a strong AI element, including developing AI Agent platforms and AI Agents in 3D worlds. Shaw has also founded several AI-related companies, but the early projects were not widely successful. 2. Shaw said that several games based on the Eliza framework are about to be launched. Shaw said Eliza is working with Treasure DAO to make a game called Smolworld, where you have a little pet monkey that you tell it what to do. Maybe it will listen to you, maybe it won't. This game is interesting because it would not be possible without AI Agents. And your goal is to take care of your virtual pet like a parent. There are also several games coming soon that use Eliza, such as Eternum, which is integrating Eliza into Eternum so that in-game agents will have wallets. And you can "kill" these agents and take their money. 3. Shaw wants to build Marc AIndreessen into a practical AI Agent investment tool, a DeFi AI Agent. Regarding Marc AIndreessen, the AI ​​Agent that has almost the same name as the well-known investor Marc Andreessen, the project is still in a very early stage (only one tweet has been posted). Shaw said he originally designed it to be a practical investment tool, a DeFi AI Agent. The function of this product is that if humans recommend buying tokens to it, it will consider buying it. In order to prevent malicious actors from recommending things to it that it should not buy, it will build a trust mechanism called a "trust market." The idea of ​​the trust mechanism is that if you recommend a good token, it will place a virtual order for everyone, but not a real purchase. It ends up taking trading advice only from those who provide him with consistently good trading information. 4. Marc Andreessen follows several of Shaw’s online accounts, but they have never met offline. Shaw knows some people from a16z. Marc Andreessen is undoubtedly one of the most influential people in the American venture capital community. He has followed and retweeted the ai16z project, but Shaw said they have not met online. "I've been an AI Agent developer for a while, and he follows a few of my accounts, but we haven't met in person," Shaw said. According to Shaw: Eddy Lazzarin, CTO of a16z’s cryptocurrency division, messaged Shaw to say that he had been in the project’s Discord channel since day one but said nothing. Shaw asked him if he liked the AI ​​Agent. He said, no, I'm just there watching, like we're watching you. 5. Shaw stated that he does not hold Eliza tokens and will never issue independent tokens for the Eliza framework in the future. Shaw said he personally holds both ai16z and DegenAI tokens and stores them in his wallet. But does not own Eliza tokens, nor will independent tokens be issued for the Eliza framework. "ai16z members don't want to...