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With Hongyu Zhou (Pretraining Researcher, StepFun), Dan Fu (VP Kernels, Together AI), Mar Hershenson (Pear VC), Saoud Rizwan (Founder, Cline), Joey Wang (Engg Lead, Harvey).
Oct 22 (Thu) @ 06:00 PM       FREE
Venue, To Be Announced, SF

 
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We just launched Step 5 Preview, our new open-weights flagship LLM, & we'd love for you to be among the first to explore it up close.
Co-hosted by StepFun & Together AI, this launch night brings together founders, developers, & AI builders for a model introduction & live Q&A, a panel on whats worth building as AI models improve, & conversations over food & drinks.
Step 5 Preview brings frontier-level performance to real-world agents, with open weights & affordable inference that make it easier to build & scale AI applications.
Meet the Speakers
Hongyu Zhou , Pretraining Researcher @ StepFun
Dan Fu , VP of Kernels @ Together AI
Mar Hershenson , Co-founder & Managing Partner @ Pear VC
Saoud Rizwan , Founder @ Cline
Joey Wang , Engineering Lead @ Harvey

Agenda
6:00 PM Check-in, bites, drinks & networking
6:30 PM Meet Step 5 Preview
Meet the team behind the model. Pretraining researcher Hongyu Zhou will introduce Step 5 Preview, followed by a live Q&A. Bring your questions about the model & building agents with it.
7:15 PM Panel: Build for the Next Model
As models get better, what's still worth building? Founders & builders on product opportunities & lasting value.
8:00 PM Find Your Match
Meet fellow founders, developers, & builders. Pick a sticker that reflects your role or interests, then use it to start a conversation over food & drinks.
9:00 PM Wrap-up
Who Should Join
Developers, founders, researchers, product teams, & investors building with AI or exploring what the latest models can do.
About StepFun
StepFun is a leading foundation model company committed to the long-term pursuit of AGI. Its Step model family spans language, audio, multimodal, & reasoning capabilities. StepFun also works closely with intelligent devices, with its models deployed across smartphones, automotive, & in-car agent experiences.
Step 5 Preview:
API Platform Model overview
GitHub Hugging Face X
About Together AI
Together AI, the AI Native Cloud, is purpose-built for AI engineers. AI application developers get high-performance inference that scales reliably, fine-tuning & reinforcement learning for creating frontier-level specialized models, & pre-training at massive scale for fully custom intelligence, all around a marketplace of leading open models that teams can run, adapt, & own. Trusted by Cursor, Decagon, ElevenLabs, Salesforce, & Zoom, Together serves 400+ trillion tokens a month.
X: @togethercompute
 
 
 
 
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