Agents execute 217 billion daily actions by 2029

5.8 significance by IDC Business December 2029

Why does it matter?

Hundreds of billions of daily actions would make agent reliability and governance an everyday operational problem.

Direct quote

More significantly, these agents will execute over 217 billion actions per day and consume 3.7 TeraTokens/Calls (3,700,000,000,000) daily to support this still rapidly expanding inferencing load. The token delivery cost worldwide for supporting all these agent actions will surpass $68 billion annually, but the cost to complete an ever more complex and sophisticated individual action will be 87% lower.

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