HOW MANY AI AGENTS COULD RUN ON THE AI CHIPS SHIPPED THROUGH 2027?

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AI chips shipped through 2027 could run tens to hundreds of millions of concurrent frontier-model agents. These agents could supply as many weekly working hours as about 140-720 million full-time employees. Even a modest use of this capacity would require a massive increase in global demand for AI. Using 20% of the estimated central capacity would imply $2.6 trillion to $5.3 trillion a year in API-equivalent spending.