Step3-VL-10B is an open-source multimodal foundation model developed by StepFun AI that pushes the boundaries of what compact models can achieve by combining visual and language understanding in a single architecture. Despite having only about 10 billion parameters, it delivers performance that rivals or even surpasses much larger models (10×–20× larger) on a wide range of multimodal benchmarks covering reasoning, perception, and complex tasks, positioning it as one of the most powerful models in its class. ...