StepFun has committed to releasing BF16 open-weight versions of its flagship Step-5 model on October 15, 2026, but four days out the license governing those weights has not been published on any offic…
Anthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5 cuts per-token pricing by 90% for requests under 100k tokens, but a new tokenizer inflates token counts roughly 30% per request and an adjustable effort dial can swing act…
A developer's hands-on comparison found that StepFun's Step 5 Preview and Mistral Large 4 generate working Rust code that is not idiomatic, relying on C-style `idx` local variables and byte accesses, …
Google announced a single universal Gemini agent for work on 9 Oct 2026, with Google Cloud describing four jobs — answering questions, knowledge work, image and media creation, and writing and running…
StepFun announced that its Step 5 Preview model is now live on OpenRouter, with a week of free access rolling out across OpenCode, Cline, Nous Research, Kilo Code and other platforms. StepFun describe…
StepFun's flagship agentic model, Step 5 Preview, has appeared on OpenRouter with a 1,000,000-token context window and a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture of 27B active and 600B total parameters.…
StepFun's flagship model Step 5 Preview is now available on Vercel's AI Gateway under the model name stepfun/step-5-preview, supporting text and image input with a 1M-token context window. Vercel said…
Geely announced its fifth-generation Smart Charging Station, rated at up to 2,250 kW peak, and claims its AI-managed "lithium-ion pulse restoration technology" adds up to 20% more battery cycle life b…
StepFun announced Step 5 Preview, a 600B total / 27B active mixture-of-experts flagship model for agentic work with 1M context and vision, and said open weights will be released on Oct 15. StepFun cla…
The quota-mcp MCP server, version 0.2.1, was published to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-21 as the Docker image ghcr.io/limitcool/quota-mcp:0.2.1, according to the mcpindex leaderboard. The tool…
StepFun released Step 5 Preview, a flagship model for agentic work that natively supports text, image, and video input and offers a 1M-token context window. StepFun says the model delivers frontier-le…
Chinese AI lab StepFun released Step 5 Preview, a flagship agentic model that scored 44 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, beating Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash (high) at 41 while costing $0.7…
StepFun released Step 5 Preview, a sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with about 600B total parameters and about 27B activated per token, offering a 1M-token context window and text, image, and video inp…
StepFun released Step 5 Preview, a next-generation flagship foundation model built for real-world tasks with a focus on coding and professional knowledge work. The model natively supports text, image,…
StepFun released Step 5 Preview on September 18, 2026, a reasoning model that scores 44 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, well above the median of 25 for comparable models. Step 5 Preview…
StepFun released five StepAudio 3 models on September 15th, giving developers separate APIs for real-time voice interaction, transcription, speech synthesis, general audio generation and music. Artifi…
The NSA, CISA and FBI on Tuesday accused six Chinese AI firms — DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI — of running large-scale knowledge-distillation campaigns against US frontier …
The NSA, CISA, and FBI have accused six Chinese firms — DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI — of running "industrial-scale" distillation attacks on US models including Claude, G…
China's Commerce Ministry said Wednesday it is willing to hold constructive AI talks with the US while vowing countermeasures if Washington acts against Chinese AI companies over technology-theft accu…
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) jointly accused six Chinese AI companies—DeepSeek, Moonsh…