StepFun released its Step 5 Preview model as open weights, featuring 600B total parameters with 27B active per token and a 1M token context window. The model is designed for agentic work and is available on Hugging Face and ModelScope.
Reports mentioning Artificial Analysis
Microsoft AI launched MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming on October 1, 2026, marking its inaugural streaming speech-to-text (STT) model. This release coincided with two new text-to-speech models, MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash. Independent analysis by Artificial Analysis has positioned MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming as the top-performing model out…
Liquid AI released Pipette this week, an open-source platform for benchmarking foundation models on edge devices. This initiative was developed in partnership with Artificial Analysis, which served as an independent methodology validator.