Some say that the AI concept is also a kind of MEME in the cryptocurrency world, and there is indeed some truth to this. However, there is a significant difference between AI concept coins and regular MEME coins:

AI coins have a higher threshold for issuance; the project team must have technical strength and capital control ability, which makes market attention more concentrated. Moreover, seasoned investors (old OGs) are more optimistic about these types of speculative projects with value capture expectations, and are willing to attract large sums of money to enter the market.

In contrast, MEME coins have an extremely low issuance threshold, and the speed of new coin issuance is very fast, leading to a severe dispersion of attention. For instance, the coin GORK, although allegedly manipulated by a whale and riding on the hype of Elon Musk's profile change interaction, only saw its market capitalization rise to 100 million dollars (100M). Now, old users in the cryptocurrency world are not keen on picking up old coins, only chasing new coins, which makes the upward potential of MEME coins increasingly limited.

In short, the core difference between the two lies in the issuance threshold: AI coins with a high threshold can concentrate funds, while MEME coins with a low threshold find it difficult to sustain attention.