Chinese AI firm StepFun releases its Step 5 Preview model to developers

StepFun opened the model weights of Step 5 Preview on Oct 15, on Hugging Face and ModelScope, in BF16 and FP8 versions. The company says the model reaches the frontier in coding, software engineering and finance.

Chips ready on day one

• Huawei Ascend
• Biren Technology
• MetaX
• Moore Threads

Four Chinese chipmakers announced same-day support for the model: Huawei, Biren Technology, MetaX and Moore Threads.

Cards in Huawei's new Atlas 950 SuperPoD

1,024 cards

Huawei switched on its first Atlas 950 SuperPoD, a liquid-cooled cluster of 1,024 cards, the same day, and says it matches advanced computing power abroad.