Agents now burn 34x more tokens than in February, OpenRouter data shows at NVIDIA event
NVIDIAAI · x · 2026-10-21
A chart presented at an NVIDIA event shows weekly agent token usage across OpenRouter climbing to 132.6T tokens for the week of Oct 5, 2026 — a 34x increase since early February. The curve has gone nearly vertical in recent months, supporting the thesis that "useful AI creates demand for more intelligence": as agent tasks grow more complex, token consumption scales exponentially, offering direct evidence for sustained compute demand.
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