@rohanpaul_ai: "Every 10 seconds, global token demand is around 31.7 billion in 2026. By 2030 its 1.27 trillion, a 40x increase." ~ Qu…
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Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon projects global token demand will increase 40x by 2030, driven by AI agents shifting from human-paced to persistent background operation, requiring massive infrastructure for context, memory, and error handling.
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“Every 10 seconds, global token demand is around 31.7 billion in 2026. By 2030 its 1.27 trillion, a 40x increase.”
~ Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon:
The token explosion is not mainly about smarter answers; it is about AI moving from human-paced interaction to Agent-paced activity.
Once agents become persistent, the economy of AI stops will be the background infrastructure.
Every useful action has a hidden bill: context must be carried, memory must be updated, sensors may need to be interpreted, and mistakes must be caught before they become expensive.
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