AI Reports · Epoch AI · 2026-10-02 · Blog / commentary
How many AI agents could we run?
Hardware using high-bandwidth memory (HBM) shipped in 2025–27 could eventually support tens to hundreds of millions of concurrent frontier-model agents, assuming full deployment and allocation to these workloads. More efficient models could potentially support billions. Applying DeepSeek V4 Pro serving benchmarks to the projected hardware supply yields about 1.9 billion concurrent agents.