Karpathy says the outside world sees only a preview of AI capabilities
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On 12 October 2026, Anthropic's Andrej Karpathy argued that the outside world has seen only a "preview" of AI's actual capabilities. He divides large language model users into four tiers: roughly 6 billion people have barely touched an LLM; 1 to 2 billion use free ChatGPT-style products merely as a better search engine; about 20 million professional users in maths and programming already use agents to complete complex projects that once took weeks or months; and only about 5,000 people have access to internal frontier systems.
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- The DecoderAnthropic's Andrej Karpathy says "the external world has seen the preview" of what AI can actually do
Andrej Karpathy, co-founder of OpenAI and now at Anthropic, sees a widening knowledge gap in AI. About 75 percent of the world's population has barely touched LLMs. Roughly 5,000 people, meanwhile, have access to internal frontier systems whose agent swarms do work that would take top experts years. The public, at best, sees a weird chatbot.
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