StepFun

IT companywww.stepfun.com

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Oct 18, 2026

[YOU] on AI · Daily

[YOU] on AI · Daily

Pulse Daily — Sunday, October 18, 2026

Oct 18 · 1 Mention

AmberHOST

6:57

And DeepSeek isn't the only open-weight story this weekend.

AmberHOST

7:00

StepFun, the Chinese lab, released weights for Step5 Preview, a genuinely enormous model.

AmberHOST

7:08

600 billion parameters total, sparse mixture of experts, activating only 27 billion per token with a 1 million token context window.

AmberHOST

7:18

Independent evaluations placed it at 88.3% on the AALCR Long Context Reasoning Benchmark.

Unknown podcast

StepFun’s Agent Phone Meets CoreWeave’s Debt Bill

Oct 17 · 2 Mentions

Jamie RossHOST

0:22

A Dose of Inspiration asks how an artist keeps fans' trust when one frame starts an AI allegation.

Adena SpectorHOST

0:29

In Client Calls, Chinese model maker StepFun has put an agent inside its new phone and connected it to outside services.

Jamie RossHOST

0:38

And in Market Update, CoreWeave, which rents AI computing power, faces questions about the cost of its next round of borrowing.

Jamie RossHOST

0:45

[music] Let's start A Dose of Inspiration with the new Expectations video from pop singers Olivia Rodrigo and Chappell Roan.

Adena SpectorHOST

5:42

For a persona model, explaining its authorship and naming who remains responsible would let customers judge the actual product decisions.

Jamie RossHOST

5:50

Fans need to know how the Expectations animation was made before anyone treats that odd frame as proof of AI.

Jamie RossHOST

5:57

Next, in Client Calls, we're moving to StepFun's new agent phone and where a distinct persona might fit inside it.

Jamie RossHOST

6:03

[outro music]Step Fun is a Chinese AI model company founded in 2023 by Zhang Daqing, a former vice president at software maker Microsoft.

Unknown podcast

AI in 20 — October 16, 2026

Oct 16 · 1 Mention

AaronHOST

15:18

The Alfosan hearing on Monday and Anthropic's prospectus.

AaronHOST

15:22

Mistral's weights on the twenty-seventh and whether StepFun ships.

AaronHOST

15:26

And independent benchmarks for MuSpark Open and MAI Base two.

BennettHOST

15:35

That's your AI in twenty for this week.

Unknown podcast

2026-10-15 | OPC Brief (11 highlights)

Oct 15 · 2 Mentions

speaker_0NARRATOR

5:09

Number 10.

speaker_0NARRATOR

5:10

Stepfun unveiled the STEPX Neo smartphone, priced at 3,999 RMB, powered by its agent-native STEP AOS operating system.

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5:23

Diverging from ByteDance's DABO phone, which relies on visual screen automation and GUI gestures, Stepfun opts for direct API orchestration across partner apps for higher reliability.

speaker_0NARRATOR

5:35

While IDC forecasts China's AI phone shipments will hit 147 million units this year, scaling beyond walled application ecosystems remains an unresolved challenge.

speaker_0NARRATOR

5:48

Number 11.

Unknown podcast

Bowl of Data — Week 39, 2026

Sep 25 · 1 Mention

MarcoHOST

12:16

By adding connectors for Walmart, Notion, or GitHub, they are building an agent that can shop, code, and manage your life simultaneously.

MarcoHOST

12:25

At the same time, StepFun is pushing the hardware limits of what these agents can do in production.

MarcoHOST

12:31

Their new Step 3.7 Flash model uses a massive 198 billion parameter sparse architecture to hit 400 tokens per second.

MarcoHOST

12:41

It is built for high frequency loops where speed is everything.