Karpathy: about 5,000 people have access to internal frontier SI systems, everyone else sees only a "preview"
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By Karpathy's estimate, very few people see the strongest SI, so most underestimate what it can already do.
According to The Decoder, Andrej Karpathy, who works at Anthropic, split people into four groups in a post on X: about 6 billion have barely used large language models; 1-2 billion use free chatbots as a "better search"; about 20 million professionals in math and programming use frontier models at work; roughly 5,000 people work with internal frontier systems. He called this "the weirdness of the moment" and said the gap between public perception and capabilities is huge. The numbers are his estimate, not a measurement.
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