GLM 5.2 vs stepfun-ai/step3

GLM 5.2

Z.AI · text → text

GLM-5.2 is Z.ai’s flagship model for the era of long-horizon tasks. With a truly usable 1M-token context window, it can handle project-level engineering context, execute long-running tasks more reliably, follow engineering standards more consistently, and complete the full development workflow from requirements to multi-platform deployment in a single task.

stepfun-ai/step3

StepFun · → text

Step3 is a multimodal reasoning model released by StepFun. It uses a Mixture‑of‑Experts (MoE) architecture with 321 billion total parameters and 38 billion activation parameters. The model follows an end‑to‑end design that reduces decoding cost while delivering top‑tier performance on vision‑language reasoning tasks. Thanks to the combined use of Multi‑Head Factorized Attention (MFA) and Attention‑FFN Decoupling (AFD), Step3 remains highly efficient on both flagship and low‑end accelerators. During pre‑training, it processed over 20 trillion text tokens and 4 trillion image‑text mixed tokens, covering more than ten languages. On benchmarks for mathematics, code, and multimodal tasks, Step3 consistently outperforms other open‑source models.