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Step 3.5 Flash

StepFun's 196-billion-parameter sparse MoE flagship reasoning release with 11B active parameters, published as Apache-declared open weights with a managed API.

Developer
StepFun
Distribution
Downloadable weights · Developer API
Artifact licensing
Open-licensed artifacts
License scope
Reviewed release artifacts and mandatory terms; not an assessment of training code or training data openness.
Licenses
Apache License 2.0
Boundary
This record represents the February 2026 Step-3.5-Flash release at Hugging Face commit ab446a3de5e171ea341227e24bb1f090e1b771f7 (last modified 2026-03-17), together with the step-3.5-flash API model. The 2603 agent-optimized variant, the 3.7 successor, and community quantizations remain separate boundaries.

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