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Garry Tan resurfaces and comments on Andrej Karpathy's tweet about the widening gap in shared understanding of LLM capabilities, noting that most of the global population has yet to experience them.

Be part of the 5000 today. It’s amazing The lucky thing is the price will come down and more people will see this, and get a chance to bring it to the world Greatest alpha fountain in the history of man
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Be part of the 5000 today. It’s amazing

The lucky thing is the price will come down and more people will see this, and get a chance to bring it to the world

Greatest alpha fountain in the history of man

Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy): Dusting off this tweet from April because this gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening. It’s now less “two groups of people speaking past each other” and more a sharp funnel.

  • Napkin math somewhere around 6B people (~75% of the population) have barely come

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Andrej Karpathy expands on his earlier tweet about the widening gap in shared understanding of LLM capabilities, describing a funnel from ~6B people with no LLM exposure to ~5,000 with access to frontier internal systems, driven by ambition, capability jaggedness, and access tiers.

@karpathy: Dusting off this tweet from April because this gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is *widening*. It's now le…

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Andrej Karpathy argues the gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening into a sharp funnel: ~6B people have barely used LLMs, 1-2B are casual free-tier users seeing 'derpy chatbots', ~20M professionals in math&code experience agents completing months of work in prompts, and ~5,000 people internally see frontier systems running swarms of collaborating agents. He attributes the funnel to problem ambition, capability jaggedness (peaks in verifiable domains like math and code), and tiered access.