Andrej Karpathy quote, Apr 7, 2025

Founder, Eureka Labs · Apr 7, 2025 · Post, Power to the people: How LLMs flip the script on technology diffusion

Mary, Jim and Joes are experiencing the majority of the benefit, not Google or the government of the United States.

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Said by: Andrej Karpathy, Founder, Eureka Labs
Where: Power to the people: How LLMs flip the script on technology diffusion
Topics: Economics
Company: Eureka Labs
Source: karpathy.bearblog.dev/power-to-the-people/

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