Motional paused near-term commercial activity to change its technical approach: Laura Major said Motional made a decision to pause commercial activities and slow down in the near term to speed up, shifting to an AI foundation model-based approach.

Motional is pursuing an end-to-end architecture while retaining smaller models: Major said Motional combined smaller models into a single backbone for an end-to-end architecture and kept smaller models for developers.

Generalization and cost optimization are stated goals of the new approach: Major said the approach is critical for generalizing to new cities and for operating in a cost-optimized way by collecting data and training the model for new environments.