# Agents are 1000x inference and only 2.4M people use them

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2026-07-17
- **Theme:** AI Agents — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/ai-agents/
- **Source:** This Crypto Turns GPUs Into Income For Everyone!!!! (AllinCrypto)
- **Watch at:** 00:22:51 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V5Mk3yKYy0&t=1371s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/ai-agents/2026-07-17-agents-are-1000x-inference-and-only-2-4m-people-us-hhlu/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Agents are 1000x inference and only 2.4M people use them," This Crypto Turns GPUs Into Income For Everyone!!!! (AllinCrypto), 17 Jul 2026, 00:22:51. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V5Mk3yKYy0&t=1371s

## Quote — verbatim

> Out of a billion people today... it'd be 2.4 million people \[using agents\]... Using regular chat, you make one call per message... Using agents, you thousand-x that.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Quantifies how early agentic AI is (80M programmers, 50M professional, <10% penetration) and why agent usage is blowing up the AI supply chain; his company spends per-engineer agent costs comparable to base salary.