Karpathy joins Anthropic, then claims 6 billion people barely touched an LLM
thursdai_pod · x · 2026-10-17
Andrej Karpathy announced joining Anthropic, then posted back-of-the-napkin math suggesting 6 billion people have barely touched an LLM, setting industry discussion ablaze. ThursdAI podcast reshared it, noting @altryne's heated reaction.
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