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StepFun Releases Step 5 Preview Open Weights: 600B MoE, 27B Active, 1M Context

StepFun released Step 5 Preview as open weights, publishing FP8 and BF16 checkpoints on Hugging Face and ModelScope. The sparse Mixture-of-Experts model has 600B total parameters, 27B active per token and up to 1M tokens of context, and StepFun built it for long-horizon agentic work.

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StepFun has released Step 5 Preview as open weights. FP8 and BF16 checkpoints are live on Hugging Face and ModelScope. Step 5 Preview is a sparse Mixture-of-Experts model from StepFun built for long-horizon agentic work. It has 600B total parameters, 27B active per token and up to 1M tokens of context. For developers, this is […]

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