StepFun launches Step 5 Preview, touting cost-performance frontier

StepFun released its flagship Step 5 Preview, positioned on the cost-performance Pareto frontier; early hands-on testing found it beats GLM 5.3 on long tasks and rivals GLM and Kimi flagships on value.

2026-09-21 ~ 2026-09-21 · 3 related posts

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