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Epoch AI's Agent Math and Salesforce's API Bill — October 5, 2026
Chips shipping through twenty twenty-seven could run up to one hundred seventy-one million AI agents at once. One company just got quoted two hundred forty thousand dollars a year to keep running the single agent it already has. Building them is easy. Paying for them isn't. We go through the memory bottleneck behind that agent math, OpenAI's internal data agent built by two engineers, and why Salesforce, Atlassian, and HubSpot are starting to charge extra for every agent API call.
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