2025 AI Agent New Trends: Breakthroughs in Digital Companions and Robotics
TEE (Trusted Execution Environment) is an important technological pillar for realizing fully autonomous AI entities.Author: 0xJeff
Compiled by: Deep Tide TechFlow
In 2025, Swarm Intelligence or Collective Intelligence will become a mainstream trend in the crypto space. With the rapid development of individual AI agents and the push from ecosystem leaders like Virtuals, Story, and ai16z, this trend has almost become inevitable.
Among them, TEE (Trusted Execution Environment) is an important technological pillar for achieving fully autonomous AI agents. Projects like @PhalaNetwork and @marvin_tong are leading the way in this field and have conducted many innovative experiments. For example, the "Unruggable ICO" experiment launched in collaboration with @123skely allows investors to send funds to the agent, which will calculate and distribute the corresponding amount of ICO tokens in a secure environment using TEE technology.
Although this experiment has received a lot of praise, it has also exposed some issues. For instance, the ACT game by @freysa_ai shows that agents can still be deceived into releasing funds, indicating a need to further enhance their verifiability mechanisms.
Nevertheless, early experiments remain exciting. For example, the first token launched by @aipool_tee saw its market cap soar to $70-80 million shortly after going live.
Another noteworthy experiment is @sporedotfun, where the project's agents can "reproduce" new agents. Similar to human evolution, weaker genes are eliminated while stronger genes produce better offspring. Their first-generation agents, Adam and Eve, have already reached a market cap of over $1 million, and the next generation of agents will "be born" in 14 hours.
Trend Shift in AI Agents
Currently, market attention is shifting away from individual agents unless these agents possess distinct personalities or significant alpha generation capabilities. Instead, experiments with autonomous agents are becoming the focus. As decentralized AI infrastructure (DeAI) is expected to launch in the first or second quarter of 2025, this trend will accelerate further.
In the future, we can expect more creative experiments, along with investment opportunities in these experiments.
Despite the ongoing popularity of existing experiments, there are still two narratives with huge potential markets (TAM) that have not been fully explored:
NSFW Agents / AI Companions
The target market size in this area exceeds $100 billion, primarily driven by the growing sense of loneliness and the demand for AI companions capable of meaningful interaction.
Top projects in this field include:
@aiwaifugg: Anime "Waifu" agents based on the infrastructure of @virtuals_io.
@TryNectarAI: Realistic NSFW AI dream girlfriend offered in a SaaS model.
@LushAIAgency: NSFW AI influencers, with flagship agent @Jennylush_.
Why the Lush Project is Worth Watching
The $LUSH token has already been launched.
Lush Exchange is set to launch, a platform designed specifically for NSFW agents.
Revenue models may include subscription fees, private messages, virtual gifts, and more.
Web3 is providing a new investment opportunity—by investing in "shares" of agents, individuals can participate in the future revenue sharing of these "temptation" AI influencers.
The $LUSH token is expected to become the core functional token of this ecosystem, not only for accessing premium features but also as the main payment method within the ecosystem.
Additionally, Lush plans to launch a creator marketplace where artists can monetize their work by licensing their models to generate content. This plan will add a new revenue stream to the entire ecosystem.
Robotics Field
With OpenAI announcing its entry into humanoid robotics, the combination of robotics and Web3 is gradually becoming a hot topic.
OpenAI aims to leverage large language models (LLMs) to help robots understand text and sensory data, thereby enhancing their interaction capabilities with the real world.
In the Web3 robotics field, @frodobots and @SamIsMoving are currently leading projects.
Project Highlights:
Frodobots has been operating in over 40 cities, dedicated to collecting real-world data.
The project team collaborates with researchers from top universities to optimize visual-language models (VLMs) and move towards the goal of artificial general intelligence (AGI).
On TikTok, Frodobots' engaging interactive videos have quickly gone viral, attracting a large following.
Frodobots is essentially a deep research team focused on robotics. The creation of SAM aims to enhance the visibility of its research, with the core idea being "crowdsourcing real-world datasets through robotic games."
The project combines DePIN (Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network), embodied AI, robotic games, and aims for AGI as the ultimate goal.
The team is working to empower SAM with the ability to autonomously control robots in over 40 cities, enabling it to drive robots around cities and create more viral content. This is likely to further increase the project's visibility and drive up token prices.
Final Thoughts
The market is always on the lookout for unique and niche AI agent fields. Currently, both the NSFW agent and robotics technology sectors are targeting huge potential markets and are expected to see significant development in early 2025.
As decentralized AI infrastructure (DeAI) gradually comes online and experiments with autonomous agents continue to increase, these trends may shift from the margins to the mainstream.
For investors and developers, these areas are undoubtedly worth close attention—not only for their speculative potential but also because they may redefine the boundaries of the next phase of AI applications, playing a significant role in this rapidly evolving ecosystem.
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