Karpathy: The LLM capability gap is widening — 75% of people have barely touched LLMs
minchoi · x · 2026-10-12
Responding to Karpathy's April tweet, minchoi highlights the widening funnel in LLM understanding: 6B people (75%) have barely used LLMs, another 1-2B are casual free-tier users. His take: those with access to frontier intelligence won't remain a permanent underclass — frontier AI access is becoming the new dividing line.
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