Microsoft CEO sees a future with 20 million AI agents at work

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shared an idea on the podcast Possible, hosted by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman: Microsoft could one day have 2 million or even 20 million AI agents working with its 200,000 employees. He called it a hypothetical scenario, but later said again that Microsoft might own 20 million agents. Nadella compared this to the 1980s, when no one believed 4 billion typists would sit in offices typing every day. He said AI is not just a technology but will become the future of business, and how coding evolves points to where all jobs are heading. Nadella also revealed he runs 100 CLI sessions with 100 agents at the same time. As the number grows, managing them becomes harder, so Microsoft built an agent development environment system for him.