Huawei predicts global annual token consumption will rise 100,000-fold by 2035

Huawei's Intelligent World 2035: From Vision to Action report forecasts that global annual token consumption will rise 100,000-fold by 2035, with AI-agent traffic accounting for more than 90% of the total. The report also projects a 100-fold increase in computing-cluster scale and a 1,000-fold decline in the cost of agent tasks, and was released alongside Huawei's Global Digital Intelligence Index 2026. Huawei's ten key propositions cover AGI, embodied intelligence, storage, connectivity, autonomous driving and AI infrastructure.

Huawei’s latest Intelligent World 2035: From Vision to Action report forecasts that global annual token consumption will increase 100,000-fold by 2035, with AI-agent traffic accounting for more than 90% of the total. The report argues that AI is shifting the digital world from an application-centered model toward an agent-centered one. Huawei also forecasts a 100-fold increase in computing-cluster scale and a 1,000-fold decline in the cost of agent tasks. Huawei released the report alongside its Global Digital Intelligence Index 2026. The report’s ten key propositions cover AGI, embodied intelligence, storage, connectivity, autonomous driving and AI infrastructure. Huawei https://www.huawei.com/cn/intelligent-world , in Chinese