On January 27, ai16z founder Shaw issued an article pointing out that competition among AI models has promoted technological progress, but the future trend is open source and low-cost models, and hardware and consumer products (such as NVIDIA GPUs, Apple devices) will continue to benefit. As a new application paradigm, AI agents can be embedded in social media, combined with model intelligence and platform connection, generate training data and promote AI iteration. He believes that agent development is more like an engineering problem than a mathematical problem. Currently, top companies have limited progress due to their emphasis on research over products, and the open source ecosystem and community collaboration are rapidly advancing agent technology. Despite the huge demand for training resources for top-notch models, agent technology provides developers with the opportunity to participate. Shaw is confident about the future of agents and believes that they will become the core driving force for practical applications of AI, while being further popularized through open source and productization.