In a podcast interview, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella proposed a future in which enterprises with 200,000 employees will collaborate with 2 million—or even 20 million—AI agents. He believes artificial intelligence will fundamentally reshape the organizational structure of enterprises and become their core foundation. Nadella noted that the evolution of the programming field foreshadows the future direction of all work, and that advanced agents capable of long-term autonomous operation will ultimately be developed. He once tested running 100 agents in parallel, and observed that as the number of agents grows exponentially, the cognitive burden of managing them increases accordingly. To address this, Microsoft has internally developed an agent development environment system designed to efficiently manage and orchestrate massive numbers of AI agents.
