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StepFun

A Chinese AI lab making open multimodal and reasoning models.

Type
AI lab
Last shipped
Oct 15, 2026
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Everything StepFun shipped

October 2026

  1. Availability

    StepFun released Step 5 Preview as open weights, with BF16 and FP8 versions on Hugging Face and ModelScope.

  2. Availability

    StepFun made Step 5 Preview available on OpenRouter, with a week of free access rolling out across several coding tools.

September 2026

  1. Launch

    StepFun open-sourced onPanda, its internal tool for annotating LLM training data and inspecting model outputs token by token.

  2. Launch

    StepFun released Step Code v0.1.0, an open-source command line tool under the MIT License that covers coding, testing and publishing static sites.

  3. New model

    StepFun introduced Step 5 Preview, a new flagship model for agentic work with 600B total and 27B active parameters, 1M context and vision.

  4. New model

    StepFun and ACE Studio released StepAudio 3 Music, StepFun's first music generation model, which turns a prompt and lyrics into a complete song.

  5. New model

    StepFun launched StepAudio 3, a family of 5 audio models for real-time voice, speech recognition, speech generation, audio generation and music, available now.

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