For years, the driverless car felt like a science fair project that never quite graduated. That’s changing. Robotaxis are picking up paying passengers in a growing list of U.S. cities, fleets are expanding overseas, and federal regulators are rewriting decades-old rules to make room for cars with no steering wheels. Yet anyone watching closely can see the technology is still wobbling through a tricky middle stage where ambition outpaces what the streets, the laws, and the public are ready to handle.
A small Miami startup says it has done what every frontier AI lab has been chasing for nearly a decade. The company, called Subquadratic, claims its new SubQ model finally escapes the quadratic scaling wall that has bottlenecked transformers since 2017, and it has the eye-popping numbers (and skeptical critics) to match.
