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SubQ sub-quadratic LLM breakthrough

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SubQ is a new LLM architecture that achieves sub-quadratic computational complexity, enabling a 12 million token context window. The breakthrough reduces the computational cost of processing long sequences, addressing a fundamental scaling limitation of standard transformer models.

  • SubQ achieves sub-quadratic complexity, improving on standard quadratic attention scaling
  • Supports 12 million token context window
  • Announced May 5-6, 2026 on Hacker News
  • Addresses computational bottleneck in long-sequence LLM processing