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The rise of powerful AI will be either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity. We do not yet know which."

—Stephen Hawking

Andrej Karpathy Says 6 Billion People Have Never Used LLMs as AI Divide Widens

Andrej Karpathy says a widening gap separates people who have never used LLMs from those working with advanced AI systems.

OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy says the gap between everyday AI users and people with access to frontier AI systems is widening. His estimates range from 6 billion people who have never used large language models to around 5,000 insiders working with advanced systems.

Anthropic Warns China Could Close AI gap by 2028, as Trump meets Xi in Beijing

US President Donald Trump met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on May 14-15, 2026 — the same week Anthropic published a policy paper warning that China could close the AI gap by 2028.

Anthropic’s policy paper warning of Chinese AI parity by 2028 was published hours before the US approved Nvidia H200 chip sales to 10 Chinese firms, as President Donald Trump met Xi Jinping in China.