StepFun has released Step 5 Preview as open weights. FP8 and BF16 checkpoints are live on Hugging Face and ModelScope. Step 5 Preview is a sparse Mixture-of-Experts model from StepFun built for long-horizon agentic work. It has 600B total parameters, 27B active per token and up to 1M tokens of context. For developers, this is
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TL;DR Most enterprise network architectures begin with established design patterns. Engineers choose proven topologies, routing protocols, redundancy models, and traffic-engineering methods because those approaches have understandable failure behavior and operational history. That discipline is necessary, but it also limits how many alternative designs an engineering team can realistically investigate. AI-assisted architecture discovery offers a different
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Anant Kumar builds tools to compare loan valuations and analyze credit agreements, using Codex for code review and faster follow-ups.
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Meet Nathan Chen, the Chinese teen AI prodigy courted by Silicon Valley South China Morning Post
From Divine, Frank Fiegel and Helen Kane to the West Sussex estate pioneering rewilding, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz1 Which classic of political theory was dedicated to Lorenzo de Medici? 2 What is the only jazz act to win the Mercury Music prize? 3 Spanish is an official language of which African country?
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Exclusive: health bodies across country say controversial US firm’s data platform no better than systems already in useNHS organisations that care for millions of people in England are rejecting Palantir’s patient data technology, according to freedom of information responses that reveal health bosses believe they can find better or equal alternatives in many cases.Some health
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Meta AI CEO Alexandr Wang sends a long thanks note to his team; says: I am so grateful for every one of y The Times of India
Delhi’s AQI jumped from 65 to 216 in a day. Why pollution could worsen
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Ethan Yan, a 16-year-old innovator, has unveiled ‘ALLocate’, an AI-driven system that adeptly detects acute myeloid leukaemia in bone marrow samples. This ingenious microscope plugin is intended for clinics with constrained budgets, ensuring expert-level accuracy in leukocyte identification. Motivated by his family’s health challenges, Yan’s creation promises swifter diagnoses, especially in regions with limited access
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