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StepFun's Step 3.7 Flash release at the end of May 2026 under an Apache 2.0 license is drawing attention because it combines open weights, multimodal capability, and low active compute in a package developers can actually try locally. The Shanghai-based lab, backed by investors including Tencent, released the model to According to StepFun's Hugging Face model card as cited in coverage, Step 3.7 Flash supports a 256K context window, three reasoning levels, and throughput of up to 400 tokens per second. The sparse MoE vision-language system has a 196B-parameter language backbone and a 1.8B-parameter vision encoder, activating about 11
