{
  "id": 13992223,
  "title": "Andrej Karpathy says this AI gap is widening",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/12/andrej-karpathy-says-this-ai-gap-is-widening",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-12T15:51:11.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Business Insider",
    "slug": "business-insider",
    "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/andrej-karpathy-ai-gap-widening-usage-2026-10"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Andrej Karpathy, an AI researcher and former OpenAI cofounder, has observed that the gap in AI diffusion is widening. According to Karpathy, approximately 75% of the world's population, or 6 billion people, have barely come into contact with large language models (LLMs). The remaining users are divided into three groups: casual and infrequent users of free-tier ChatGPT-like products, numbering around 1 to 2 billion people; developers who utilize frontier models for coding, which is estimated to be around 20 million individuals, or 0.2% of the population; and a small group of just 5,000 people who have inside access to frontier AI systems, likely due to their employment at leading companies. Karpathy believes this gap is evolving from a situation where \"two groups of people are speaking past each other\" to a \"sharp funnel.\"",
  "summary": "Renowned AI researcher Andrej Karpathy says the gap is widening among the small subset of the population that uses AI.",
  "key_points": [
    "75% of world's population, 6 billion, minimal LLM contact",
    "1-2 billion casual/infrequent ChatGPT-like users",
    "5,000 people with inside access to frontier AI systems"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "The New Stack",
        "title": "Andrej Karpathy says only 5,000 people have seen what AI can really do",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/12/andrej-karpathy-says-only-5-000-people-have-seen-what-ai-can-really-do",
        "published": "2026-10-12T15:54:20.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}