Karpathy Says the Outside World Has Only Seen a Preview of AI Capabilities
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On October 12, 2026, The Decoder reported that OpenAI co-founder and current Anthropic member Andrej Karpathy argued there is a huge gap in public perception of large language model (LLM) capabilities. He said that what the outside world currently sees is only a "preview" of AI's capabilities, and that internal frontier systems are actually far more capable than the public realizes. This is currently the only report on the remarks, with no follow-up developments or further details disclosed.
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- The DecoderAnthropic's Andrej Karpathy says "the external world has seen the preview" of what AI can actually do
OpenAI co-founder and current Anthropic member Andrej Karpathy argued that there is a huge gap between the public's perception of LLM capabilities and reality.
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