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- 2026-06-08 funding Chinese AI startup StepFun is preparing to file for an initial public offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. source
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Chinese AI Firm StepFun Prepares for Hong Kong IPO
Chinese AI startup StepFun is reportedly preparing to file for an initial public offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The company, which focuses on AI technologies, aims to raise capital through this public listing…
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Step 3.7 Flash leads benchmarks in speed, cost, and performance
StepFun's new model, Step 3.7 Flash, has achieved top rankings on the Artificial Analysis (AA) benchmark, excelling in speed, cost-efficiency, and end-to-end performance. The model demonstrates impressive output speeds …
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StepFun's Step 3.7 Flash leads AI output speed benchmarks
StepFun's new open-source model, Step 3.7 Flash, has achieved the top position on Artificial Analysis's Output Speed leaderboard, processing 409 tokens per second. The model also leads in other key metrics like end-to-e…
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AliExpress 618 Sale Sees Near 40% Brand GMV Penetration
AliExpress's summer 618 promotion, which began on June 1st, has seen a significant surge in brand Gross Merchandise Volume (GMV) penetration, reaching nearly 40% on its opening day. This event has facilitated a concentr…
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Open Source LLMs See Underwhelming May 2026 Release Pace
The open-source large language model landscape saw a relatively quiet May 2026, following a strong April. Despite the release of models like Ring, Command, and StepFun, the month was considered underwhelming by enthusia…
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StepFun's Flash Model Nears Claude Opus Coding Performance at Fraction of Cost
StepFun has released its Step 3.7 Flash model, which reportedly achieves 97% of the coding performance of Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6. This new model is significantly more cost-efficient, operating at one-ninth the cost…
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StepAudio 2.5 beats OpenAI and Google in emotion tests
StepAudio 2.5, a new model from Chinese startup StepFun, has reportedly surpassed OpenAI and Google systems in emotion interpretation tests. The model was trained using 10,000 base patterns.
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Model catalog sees new additions, price changes, and removals
New models have been added to the model catalog, including StepFun's Step 3.7 Flash, which offers large-context generation at a moderate cost. Anthropic has released two new Claude Opus 4.8 variants: a "Fast" version fo…
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StepFun releases 198B MoE vision-language model for agents
StepFun has released Step 3.7 Flash, a 198 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts vision-language model designed for coding agents and search workflows. This new model features native multimodal understanding, improved to…
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StepFun launches StepAudio 2.5 Realtime voice AI
Chinese AI lab StepFun has released StepAudio 2.5 Realtime, a new end-to-end live voice model. This system handles both audio input and output, incorporating features for persona control and paralinguistic understanding.
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StepFun launches StepAudio 2.5 with real-time voice and persona consistency
StepFun has released StepAudio 2.5 Realtime, an end-to-end speech large language model capable of real-time, customizable persona interactions. The model integrates speech understanding and generation, utilizing a milli…
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Stepfun AI releases 198B parameter multimodal MoE model
Stepfun AI has released Step 3.7 Flash, a 198-billion parameter sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) vision-language model. This model is optimized for agentic workflows, coding, and multimodal tasks, activating approximatel…
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LLM pricing shifts: inclusionAI, Gemini Flash surge; Qwen, Xiaomi, DeepSeek drop
The Token Ledger has published several updates on LLM pricing and availability throughout May and early June 2026. Notably, inclusionAI's Ring-2.6-1T saw a significant four-fold price increase, while Google's Gemini Fla…
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AI production systems tackle MoE challenges with new optimization techniques
SemiAnalysis is highlighting production system challenges for large-scale AI models, particularly Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures. They note that techniques like expert balancing and assigning dedicated resources…
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StepFun releases top-ranked image editor; Tencent previews Hy3 model
StepFun has released Step Image Edit 2, a 3.5 billion parameter image editing model that has achieved top rankings on the KRIS-Bench benchmark across multiple categories. This new version surpasses significantly larger …
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Nous Research offers 15-day free access to Step 3.5 Flash model
Nous Research is offering free access to StepFun's Step 3.5 Flash model for the next 15 days through the Nous Portal. This limited-time promotion aims to increase accessibility and facilitate user testing of the AI model.
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Volvo to integrate Geely's L2-L4 autonomous driving system by 2027
Volvo Cars will integrate Geely's Qianli HaoHan G-ASD autonomous driving system into its vehicles, with a planned launch in early 2027. This system, developed in collaboration with Stepfun, is designed to support L2-L4 …
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StepFun offers free trial for Roblox coding agent Step 3.5 Flash
StepFun has announced that its Step 3.5 Flash model is now available through a free, unlimited 14-day trial. This update introduces a new model option for their coding agent, which is designed for creating games within …