From 100K to 500B Monthly Tokens: The Uncapped Demand for AI Intelligence
heyshrutimishra · x · 2026-08-13
Over the past six and a half years, global average monthly AI token usage per person has grown from 0 to 100K, matching the usage of an early heavy OpenAI user. If this trend continues, the global average could hit 500 billion tokens per month in the next six years.
The demand for sufficiently high-quality intelligence at a sufficiently low price is effectively uncapped.
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