How did Subquadratic SubQ do on X?
Subquadratic posted the SubQ launch from @alex_whedon on May 5, 2026. The post has 13,498,874 views, 22,377 likes, 2,718 reposts, 1,972 quotes and 1,481 replies, an engagement rate of 0.21%. It ranks #71 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks.
Introducing SubQ - a major breakthrough in LLM intelligence. It is the first model built on a fully sub-quadratic sparse-attention architecture (SSA), And the first frontier model with a 12 million token context window which is: - 52x faster than FlashAttention at 1MM tokens - Less than 5% the cost of Opus Transformer-based LLMs waste compute by processing every possible relationship between words (standard attention). Only a small fraction actually matter. @subquadratic finds and focuses only on the ones that do. That's nearly 1,000x less compute and a new way for LLMs to scale.
- 77xthe median launch175K median views
- #71of the launches we trackout of 2839
- 515xits own following26,192 followers
- Views
- 13.5M
- Likes
- 22.4K
- Reposts
- 2.7K
- Quotes
- 2K
- Replies
- 1.5K
- Bookmarks
- 18.8K
What would these views cost to buy?
At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 13.5M views would cost $1.3M. At Gridd's rate of about $25 per 1,000 views, the same views would cost about $337K.
The post reached about 515 views for every follower of @alex_whedon.
What launched?
Subquadratic launched SubQ, a model built on a sub-quadratic sparse-attention architecture with a 12 million token context window.
How does it compare with other launches?
Subquadratic SubQ has more views than 98% of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks: 77x the median launch's 175K views.
- Subquadratic SubQ13.5M
- Median tracked launch175K
- #1: xAI Voice Cloning204M
| Metric | Subquadratic SubQ | Median launch |
|---|---|---|
| Views | 13.5M | 175K |
| Engagement rate | 0.21% | 0.48% |
| Views per follower | 515 | 2.8 |
| Quote posts | 2K | 27 |
| Saves per 10K views | 13.9 | 14.2 |
Other Subquadratic launches we track: Subquadratic SubQ Snap (4.5M views) and Subquadratic SubQ Snap 1.1 (11.7K views). All 3 Subquadratic launches, or every ai launch.
Against launches like it
A launch only means something against comparable ones. These are the groups it belongs to, and where it sits in each.
| Compared with | Launches | Median views | This one | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI launches | 1,462 | 264.5K | 51x | #49 |
| Accounts 10K to 100K followers | 1,135 | 99.4K | 136x | #14 |
| Video launch posts | 1,940 | 192.5K | 70x | #58 |
| Every launch | 2,839 | 175K | 77x | #71 |
What this launch shows
From an account with 26.2K followers, the post reached 515 times the account's following. Launches from accounts 10K to 100K followers reach a median of 3.1 times their following, so this one went about 167 times further than usual for its size. It ranks 14 of 1135 launches from accounts that size.
It drew 1,972 quote posts, 1.5 per 10,000 views against a median of 1.7. Fewer people than usual added their own take, and a quote post is what carries a launch to audiences the account does not have.
The first line is "Introducing SubQ - a major breakthrough in LLM intelligence.". The post runs 94 words, against a median of 39 for launch posts here, and leads with a video: video launches have a median of 192.5K views, against 137.6K for the rest.
There is no link in the post. Launch posts without a link have a median of 184.9K views in the tracker.
It went out on a Tuesday (UTC). Tuesday launches have a median of 192.3K views, the strongest day in the tracker.
Every comparison is against the 2839 launches in the tracker, read on Nov 14, 2026. Medians, not averages. See the state of launches on X for the full breakdown.
Questions about this launch
- What is Subquadratic?
- In its own words on X: "Building better algorithms. Co-Founder, CEO at @subquadratic" Subquadratic posted the SubQ launch from @alex_whedon on May 5, 2026.
- How many views did Subquadratic SubQ get on X?
- 13,498,874 views. Subquadratic posted it from @alex_whedon on May 5, 2026, and the post has 22,377 likes, 2,718 reposts, 1,972 quotes, 1,481 replies and 18,807 bookmarks. Gridd re-reads these numbers from the post every six hours; these were read on Nov 14, 2026.
- Was Subquadratic SubQ a big launch on X?
- It ranks #71 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks, with more views than 98% of them and 77x the median launch's 175K views. Its engagement rate is 0.21%, against a median of 0.48%.
- What would 13.5M views on X cost to buy?
- At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 13.5M views would cost $1.3M. At Gridd's rate of about $25 per 1,000 views, the same views would cost about $337K.
Source: Gridd launch tracker, gridd.agency/launches/subquadratic-subq, read from the post on X on Nov 14, 2026. Free to cite with a link (CC BY 4.0). Get every launch as JSON.