Congrats, you have independently reinvented the Hardware Overhang hypothesis: that early AGI could be very inefficient, undergo several optimization passes, and go from needing a datacenter of compute to, say, a single video game console's worth: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/75dnjiD8kv2khe9eQ/measuring-...
In that scenario, you can go from 0 independent artificial intelligences to tens of millions of them, very quickly.
it would seem perfectly reasonable to expect the first AIs to be very unoptimized and if the AIs are any good they will be able to optimize themselves a lot and even help design ASICs to help run them.
In that scenario, you can go from 0 independent artificial intelligences to tens of millions of them, very quickly.