AI Agents Burn 5x More Tokens Than Humans, a16z Data Shows
DeryaTR_ · x · 2026-08-25
New data from a16z reveals that AI Agents now consume nearly 5x the tokens that humans do, up 14x since February. A commentator predicts that by the 2030s, robots will collectively burn significantly more multimodal tokens than AI agents, making human usage barely visible on the chart. Global daily token usage is currently 300 trillion and is expected to reach several quadrillion per day within a year.
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