Launch Videos

Today we're announcing a major architectural breakthrough, the world's first fully subquadratic LLM.

The spoken opening line (at most 25 words).

13.5M views

More views than 97% of the library · #12 of 598

Runtime
1:25
Posted
May 5, 2026
Pace
171 wpm
Subquadratic on X

Introducing SubQ - a major breakthrough in LLM intelligence. It is the first model built…

1:25 · May 5, 2026

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Launch anatomy

When each beat happens. Beats that weren’t found are left out; the full transcript isn’t published.

Launch anatomy for SubquadraticRuntime 1:25. First five seconds: Claim or number. Company named at 0s. Call to action at 1:20.0–5s hook · Claim or numberCompany named at 0s0s Company namedCall to action at 1:201:20 Call to action0:000:210:421:041:25
  • First five secondsClaim or number
  • Company named0s
  • Call to action1:20

Not detected: product named, demo starts

Narration pace

171 words a minute · brisk

Narration pace: 171 words per minute; library median 142.SparseConversationalBriskDenselibrary median 142

Launches at this pace have a median of 327k views (n=215). Pace covers the whole runtime, pauses included.

Show the data
PaceMedian viewsVideos (n)
Sparse (0–80)571,51184
Conversational (80–140)346,258185
Brisk (140–180)326,715215
Dense (180–+)670,38071

How it compares

  • 45× the median funding announcement launch (303k, n=91)
  • 19× the median AI model launch (729k, n=48)
  • 33× the library median (407k, n=598)
Where this launch landsEach dot is one launch. The ringed dot is this one.
  1. All launchesn=598 · median 407k
  2. Funding announcementn=91 · median 303k
  3. AI modeln=48 · median 729k

One launch Median This launchViews, log scale

Show the data
GroupVideosMedian25th pct75th pctMax
All launches598407,120103,0301,346,326138,357,050
Funding announcement91302,61799,0731,218,57114,373,501
AI model48728,556326,7152,316,24539,909,098

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Hook style, category, “why it worked” and the takeaway are AI-assisted labels, not hand-reviewed. Beat timings miss some moments: “not detected” does not mean it never happened.

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Videos belong to the companies that posted them and play through X’s official embed, which loads only after you click. Hook labels and “why it worked” notes are AI-assisted analysis and can be wrong. Curated from public launch posts on X. Data as of Nov 4, 2026. Corrections and removal