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On October 15, 2026, StepFun updated Step Code, the open-source agent harness built around Step 5 Preview, to v0.1.4, helping agents track goals in long and complex tasks, keep making progress, and check against verifiable results whether tasks are truly completed. The company says that since Step Code was open-sourced, four versions have been released, roughly once every 3 working days, driven mainly by community feedback. On the same day, StepFun officially opened the Step 5 Preview model weights, with BF16 and FP8 versions launched simultaneously on Hugging Face and ModelScope; the model uses a sparse MoE architecture, with 600B total parameters and 27B activated parameters, and supports a 1 million Token context window.
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StepFun open-sources Step 5 Preview, a 600B-parameter MoE model that ranks second on the OpenRouter weekly chart
StepFun officially releases the Step 5 Preview model weights, with BF16 and FP8 versions launched simultaneously on Hugging Face and ModelScope. The model uses a sparse MoE architecture, with 600B total parameters and 27B activated parameters, supports a 1 million Token context window, and scores 44 on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index, placing it in the global top three open-source models. As of October 15, 2026, its Token usage ranks second on both the OpenRouter weekly and daily charts, with about 18.8 trillion Tokens used in the past seven days; according to evaluation data at release, its average cost per task is $0.71, about 1/8 that of Claude Opus 5.
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