AI agents are now generating far more model traffic than people on OpenRouter, with agentic usage reaching 7.3 trillion tokens on a seven-day average in August after a 14-fold rise since February. The shift, highlighted in an a16z chart based on OpenRouter data, points to a fast-growing inference market in which software workflows increasingly call AI models on behalf of users.
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