OpenAI founding member Andrej Karpathy, who joined Anthropic in May, thinks most of the world has little idea of what AI can do, and in a Sunday post on X, he said the gap is getting wider. By his own napkin math, roughly 6 billion people have barely used an LLM, 1 to 2 billion use chatbots casually, about 20 million use frontier models professionally in math and code, and around 5,000 have access to frontier systems inside the labs.

Box CEO Aaron Levie sees an opportunity in that gap. “This is a good way to understand how early we actually are in AI diffusion right now,” he wrote in his response on X.

He argued that most people still think of AI as a chatbot or a next-generation search engine while barely exploring its more advanced opportunities.

“Agent swarms represent possibly the ultimate form factor of what agents will do inside of our workflows,” Levie wrote, envisioning systems that divide complex work among agents running in parallel.

“Agent swarms represent possibly the ultimate form factor of what agents will do inside of our workflows”

For now, “less than a fraction of a fraction of the population uses AI in this way,” Levie noted, and he identified the obstacles keeping it that way. We’re still early. Models aren’t equally capable across every kind of work, running them at scale is expensive, and tools to manage multiple agents are still catching up. Most people don’t even have access to the most powerful models yet.

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