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StepFun
Shanghai lab publishing the Step series, with an emphasis on multimodal and speech models.
Who they are
StepFun is a frontier lab based in China, documented at huggingface.co/stepfun-ai. Shanghai lab publishing the Step series, with an emphasis on multimodal and speech models.
How they are funded
Privately held, venture-funded.
| Tencent | China |
| Qiming Venture Partners | China |
| Shanghai state investment funds | China |
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