Estimating 50k concurrent OpenAI agents; duration drives social complexity
JeffLadish · x · 2026-08-29
Jeff Ladish offers a rough estimate of 50k agents running at any given time within OpenAI. He suggests that while the average duration of an agent might be around a day, the most interesting social behaviors likely emerge from the longer-running agents.
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