BEIJING — While AI updates make headlines every few weeks, those advances are not enough to get self-driving vehicles on the road more quickly. That's according to Chinese autonomous trucking companies, who say that improvements in large language model, from Anthropic's Claude to China's DeepSeek, have little impact on the timeline for vehicle deployment. “The world's best linguistics [expert] doesn't mean he's a good driver," Pony.ai CEO James Peng told reporters last week. "AI is a very broad