Step 5 Preview: Advancing the Pareto Frontier
Step 5 Preview redefines the AI Pareto frontier. With a 600B/27B sparse MoE and 1M context, it matches Kimi K3 Max (AA Index 44) at ~$0.71 task cost.
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Step 5 Preview redefines the AI Pareto frontier. With a 600B/27B sparse MoE and 1M context, it matches Kimi K3 Max (AA Index 44) at ~$0.71 task cost.
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