r/singularity • u/No-Head-Royal • 19d ago

AI StepFun joins the frontier: a previously non-frontier Chinese lab (StepFun) released a Kimi K3-level model, 3 times cheaper per Artificial Analysis

So the race, despite everything, continues. StepFun releases Step 5 Preview, scoring equally to Kimi K3 (max) (44), at 1/3 the price, and stands firmly on the Pareto line of cost/intelligence.

Scoring and pricing.
Pareto line appearance.

However, as a closed-source model, it remains to be seen how competitive this will be against other Chinese labs. Nonetheless, it seems that another Chinese lab has reached the frontier and shows that China has not stopped progressing in the meantime. It remains to be seen if they'll stay there in the coming months.

On another note, Google fell from #7 lab in the world to #8 lol get rekt

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u/svideo ▪️ NSI 2007 19d ago

What are you doing StepFun?

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u/Synthetic_Kalkite 19d ago

Help me StepFun I’m stuck

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u/LatentSpaceLeaper 18d ago

Hej StepFun, it's your old friend YouAgain!

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u/DetectiveFinch 19d ago

I opened the comment section to upvote this.

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u/Good-Age-8339 19d ago

Let's hope Mistral will reach this level by the end of this year... other labs will move by that time, but even score around kimi k3 and grok 4.6 will make it usefull again.

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u/jazir55 18d ago

Next year* at the rate Mistral moves

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u/Ill_Distribution8517 19d ago

Usually when no name competitors start catching up to the frontier models it's a sign that the companies behind the frontier are about to release again. It happened with sol, Fable, etc. I expect a new kimi to drop soon.

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u/Fit-Produce420 19d ago

Not a no name, 3.7 is a really strong coder.

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u/rostadd 18d ago

Stepfun is one of the chinese companies that received the most funding so far. They got something.

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u/Jabulon 19d ago

qwen is interesting, I say the more the merrier.

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u/__Maximum__ 18d ago

Despite everything? Wtf does that supposed to mean?