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StepFun AI·Jan 1, 2026·v1.0·open source

STEP3-VL-10B

STEP3-VL-10B is a lightweight open-source foundation model designed to redefine the trade-off between compact efficiency and frontier-level multimodal intelligence. Despite its compact 10B parameter footprint, STEP3-VL-10B excels in visual perception, complex reasoning, and human-centric alignment.

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STEP3-VL-10B is a lightweight open-source foundation model designed to redefine the trade-off between compact efficiency and frontier-level multimodal intelligence. Despite its compact 10B parameter footprint, STEP3-VL-10B excels in visual perception, complex reasoning, and human-centric alignment.

key features
  • 01Unified pre-training on 1.2T multimodal tokens
  • 02Integration of a language-aligned Perception Encoder with a Qwen3-8B decoder
  • 03Scaled post-training pipeline with over 1,000 iterations of reinforcement learning
  • 04Implementation of Parallel Coordinated Reasoning (PaCoRe) for scalable perceptual reasoning
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