Andrej Karpathy said only about 5,000 people have access to top-tier frontier AI capabilities inside labs
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Andrej Karpathy said the public’s understanding of what AI systems can do is lagging behind, estimating that only around 5,000 people have access to the most advanced AI capabilities internally. He argued that as access remains concentrated, enterprise efforts are focusing on bringing more capable AI agents and workflow automation into mainstream business use.