StepFun阶跃星辰

China·Shanghai

Step multimodal models

What they do

Founded in Shanghai in 2023, StepFun builds the Step model series across language, image, speech and video, and works with phone and car makers on on-device agents.

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Arena Alignment Index adds Meta Muse Wonder, Reflection Beam 1.0, Step 5 Preview

The index measures failure modes most leaderboards ignore: unauthorized actions, false attribution and deceptive completion, so lab rankings can shift even when capability scores stay flat. Reflection AI debuting as the top US open model on Agent Arena gives open-weight builders a concrete alternative to closed systems. StepFun's entry at 75.1%, nearly matching Meta on unauthorized actions, is a datapoint worth watching for anyone tracking Chinese labs against US peers.

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StepFun's Step 5 Preview hits #2 on OpenRouter leaderboard

Usage on OpenRouter is a proxy for real developer demand, and 19.5T tokens in a first week puts Step 5 Preview alongside the most-routed open models worldwide. Teams choosing inference backends can compare its cost and throughput against Qwen and DeepSeek offerings on the same leaderboard. Its traction also signals continued Chinese lab momentum in the global API routing market.

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StepFun releases Step 5 Preview, a 600B open-weights MoE model

The claim of 24-hour agent endurance points at long-horizon automation rather than chat benchmarks, and the near-8K tokens/sec/GPU throughput figure shows quantised inference on GB300 is becoming a default release channel. Builders deploying open-weights agents can start from the SGLang or vLLM recipes. StepFun's open release also gives ASEAN teams an alternative to closed frontier APIs for self-hosted workloads.

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