Step-Audio-Chat 130B is an AI model developed by StepFun (China), first published in February 2025. It works in the speech domain, on tasks such as speech synthesis, speech recognition (asr), speech-to-text and 4 more.
Training it took an estimated 1.9×10²⁴ FLOP of compute (estimation method: operation counting). The model has 130,000,000,000 parameters. It was trained on roughly 1.7T datapoints.
Access: Open weights (unrestricted). Its weights are openly available. It is built on top of Step-1. Epoch AI rates the confidence of this record as confident.