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China's AI 'Six Tigers': Stepfun Aims for General Intelligence

2/4/2025

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China's AI landscape is dominated by the "Six Tigers"—Stepfun, Zhipu, Minimax, Moonshot, 01. AI, and Baichuan. Among them, Stepfun, launched in April 2023, is on a quest for artificial general intelligence. With support from Tencent and Shanghai's government, it unveiled 11 models last year, including the impressive Step-2, which closely trails ChatGPT in performance.

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China's AI landscape is dominated by the "Six Tigers"—Stepfun, Zhipu, Minimax, Moonshot, 01. AI, and Baichuan. Among them, Stepfun, launched in April 2023, is on a quest for artificial general intelligence. With support from Tencent and Shanghai's government, it unveiled 11 models last year, including the impressive Step-2, which closely trails ChatGPT in performance.