Anthropic's Andrej Karpathy says the outside world has seen a "preview" of AI's true capabilities

Anthropic's Andrej Karpathy says there is now a huge gap between AI capabilities as seen by the public and those of internal frontier systems. He divides LLM users into four tiers by level of exposure: about 6 billion people (75% of the world) have almost no contact with LLMs, 1-2 billion free product users treat them as a better search engine, about 20 million math and programming professional users have agents complete projects that would otherwise take weeks to months, and only about 5,000 people have access to internal frontier systems. He believes LLM capabilities are currently concentrated in the digital, verifiable, and economically valuable domains of programming and mathematics, stemming from reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards.