Step-1 is an AI model developed by StepFun (China), first published in February 2025. It works in the language domain, on tasks such as language modeling/generation and question answering.
Training it took an estimated 6.2×10²³ FLOP of compute (estimation method: operation counting). The model has 130,000,000,000 parameters. It was trained on roughly 800B datapoints.
Access: Unreleased. Its weights are not openly released. Epoch AI rates the confidence of this record as confident.