alt Hacker NewsSo who exactly is StepFun? What is their business (how do they make money)? Each time I click “About Stepfun” somewhere on their website, it sends me to a generic landing page in a loop.
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tarruda • today at 12:47 PM
They seem to be the same company that released ACEStep music generation model: https://acestep.io/
Though the only mention I found was in ComfyUI docs: https://docs.comfy.org/tutorials/audio/ace-step/ace-step-v1
deaux • today at 5:01 AM
Might want to give it a search.
They've been around a couple years. This is the first model that has really broken into the anglosphere.
Keep a tab on aihubmix, the Chinese openrouter, if you want to stay on top of the latest models. They keep track of things like the Baichuan, Doubao, baai (beijing academy), Meituan, 01.AI (yi), xiaomi, etc...
Much larger chinese coverage than openrouter