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Karpathy’s LLM Capability Gap Funnel

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Karpathy reshared his April breakdown of the LLM capability gap and it's been stuck in my head since. His funnel: ~6 billion people have barely touched an LLM. 1 to 2 billion use it casually. Around 20 million actually push it on math and code. Fewer than 5000 have internal access at the labs. That…

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  1. 2026-10-12 04:15 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
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