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StepFun · 25 July 2025

321B-total (38B active) vision-language MoE co-designed with its serving system, reaching 4,039 tokens/s per Hopper GPU in decoding vs DeepSeek-V3's 2,324.

Multi-Matrix Factorization Attention shrinks the KV cache; Attention-FFN Disaggregation runs attention and FFN on separate hardware pools. Aimed at cheaper long-context decoding, including on lower-end accelerators. Apache-2.0 weights on 2025-07-28.

Date
Friday, 25 July 2025
Lab
StepFun
Kind
open-weights
Access
open weights

Figures

MeasureValueMeasured by
Decoding throughput per Hopper GPU (4K context, 50ms TPOT, FP8)4,039 tokens/s
vs DeepSeek-V3 2,324 in the same setup
company
Total / active parameters321B (VLM) / 38Bcompany

Date is arXiv v1 (2025-07-25, during WAIC); HF weights uploaded from 2025-07-28 UTC. Throughput numbers are StepFun's own, theoretical-plus-measured.

Sources

  1. arxiv.org/abs/2507.19427
  2. huggingface.co/stepfun-ai/step3

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