ai16z founder Shaw tweeted today to clarify, emphasizing that ai16z has no connection to a16z. Additionally, ai16z contributors stated that the project team has communicated with a16z and revealed that a16z's CTO is currently in the ai16z Discord group, so there is no need to worry about trademark infringement issues. (Background: AI frenzy) VIRTUAL jumps into the top 40 cryptocurrencies, ai16z's market cap exceeds 2.5 billion USD, with $TAO, $RENDER, $FET all rising over 10%) (Background: The AI Agents sector is surging against the wind! ai16z's market cap surpasses 1.9 billion USD, reaching a new high, and $VIRTUAL jumps into the top 45 cryptocurrencies) Currently, the largest AI agents token on the Solana chain is ai16z, which originated from the first AI fund manager. The plan is for users holding ai16z tokens to influence its investment decisions, a concept known as "AI Investment DAO." However, later, the AI agents development framework Eliza developed by the ai16z team has garnered more attention, and projects developed using this framework will airdrop tokens to the funds managed by ai16z. Now, ai16z also carries the halo of the entire Eliza ecosystem and is generally regarded as the representative token of the "AI agents development framework," often compared with the most mainstream agents development platform on the Base chain, Virtuals Protocol. ai16z founder: ai16z has no connection to a16z Perhaps because ai16z has repeatedly set new highs this week, with a market cap once exceeding 2.7 billion USD, its market popularity continues to rise, leading some to speculate about its relationship with the well-known venture capital a16z. Regarding this matter, ai16z founder Shaw tweeted today to clarify, stating that ai16z has no connection to a16z, and frankly said: "If you bought a coin because you saw a picture of a waifu with unrealistically large breasts along with some absurd topics and thought they were related, you are truly naive." He then added that this is actually fine because he himself is an idiot. Disclaimer: ai16z is not related to a16z in any way If you bought a coin with a jpeg of a waifu with unrealistically large boobas from a guy talking about buttholes thinking that was not the case, you are retarded — Shaw (@shawmakesmagic) January 4, 2025. It is understood that the reason ai16z is named similarly to a16z is because the AI Agent is trained using data from a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen, with the goal of outperforming him in investment performance. As of now, the most direct connection between Marc Andreessen and ai16z is limited to the end of October last year, when he retweeted an image related to ai16z and the official X account link, presumably just finding it interesting. Hey, I have that T-shirt. https://t.co/98FQ4x9Mxl pic.twitter.com/5ZLXuftZES — Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) October 27, 2024 Contributors: No need to worry about ai16z infringing on a16z's trademark. Additionally, regarding the issue of whether ai16z is suspected of infringing on a16z's trademark, ai16z project contributor @0xjunkdogg stated that there is no need to worry and provided the following reasons: 1. Communication has already occurred via email with a16z. 2. a16z's CTO is also in the ai16z Discord group, although he has remained silent, he seems to be observing in the background. 3. The real Marc Andreessen has retweeted content related to ai16z. 4. Both ai16z and a16z are promoting DUNA (the process of legalizing DAO organizations in the United States; previously, a16z launched a set of DAO legal frameworks, which are currently only legal in one state, and everyone is working hard to make it more comprehensively legal). Everyone need not worry about this issue: 1. Communicated via email with a16z 2. a16z's CTO is in ai16z's Discord, but has not spoken, secretly observing 3. The real Marc Andreessen has retweeted 4. ai16z and a16z are both promoting DUNA (the legalization of DAO organizations in the U.S.; previously a16z launched a DAO legal framework, but is only legal in one state, and everyone is working to make it more legal) https://t.co/CIzn1t0hDF — Wind Answer Junkdogg partner @ ai16z (@0xjunkdogg) December 31, 2024 Projects related to ai16z Recently, Shaw also provided a brief explanation regarding their organizational structure and the relationships between various entities: ai16z is a permissionless DAO, involving tokens $ai16z and $degenai elizaOS is an open-source AI Agent framework Eliza Labs focuses on developing elizaOS ELIZA (uppercase) is managed by an independent team, receiving official support but not officially released Previously, the uppercase ELIZA and lowercase eliza caused confusion, but over time, the market cap of the uppercase ELIZA has attracted more attention. Recently, the ELIZA team announced that Shaw officially joined as an advisor. According to GitHub Trending data, Eliza ranked first in the trend list over the past month, gaining 6,232 stars, for a total of 9,126 stars, fully reflecting the high popularity and popularity of this project Some people have asked about our structure and the relationship between our entities ai16z -> Permissionless DAO, $ai16z and $degenai elizaOS -> Open Source AI Agent Framework Eliza Labs -> Building elizaOS ELIZA token -> separate...