# Altman says AI became smarter than humans this year as Karpathy describes a steep gap in public understanding

Karpathy, now on Anthropic's pretraining team, estimates that about 6 billion people have barely used a language model while about 5,000 people live in a different AI world.

- Published: 2026-10-12T06:16:38.065Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-10-12/altman-says-ai-became-smarter-than-humans-this-year-as-karpa
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- Sources: [Polylog editors](https://polylog.news), [Quartz](https://qz.com/andrej-karpathy-joins-anthropic-pretraining-team-051926)

Sam Altman, OpenAI's chief executive, said "this was the year that I think AI got smarter than us," according to a post by the AI Post channel. The post adds that Altman does not expect superior AI to make people happier and does not claim…

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