StepFun Launches Step 5 Preview: 600B/27B MoE Flagship, Open Weights Oct 15
StepFun_ai · x · 2026-09-20
StepFun introduced Step 5 Preview, a new flagship model for agentic work claiming frontier performance in software engineering and professional knowledge work, with a finance focus.
- Specs: 600B total / 27B active MoE, 1M context + vision, substantially lower task cost at comparable intelligence
- Long-horizon execution: sustains runs up to 24 hours (GPU kernel optimization, automated post-training), iterating on execution feedback
- Professional work: one agent action coordinated 950 web fetches and assembled 300,000 monthly records across 1,000 locations over 25 years; another produced a 17-sheet analytical workbook with source reconciliation and formulas
- Finance: FinStepBench (LiveSearch, CorporateValuation, DeepResearch) plus FrontierFinance across six investment use cases
- Open weights coming Oct 15; Step Plan subscription free for a limited time
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