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Step3-VL-10B Base

The Base release exposes Step3-VL-10B before its chat post-training. The family pairs a Perception Encoder with Qwen3-8B and uses fully unfrozen multimodal pretraining.

Research release

Keep post-training claims separate

The shared card describes the family’s full training pipeline. The Base checkpoint should not inherit the final chat model's reinforcement-learning or PaCoRe results.StepFun Step3-VL-10B-Base model card

Adapt perception and language together

Practical guidance. This checkpoint fits work on new document types or visual domains. Choose the chat model if the immediate need is an assistant that follows instructions. A base checkpoint requires a defined training and evaluation process.

Specifications & access

Step3-VL-10B Base specifications
DetailValue and conditions
StatusResearch release
AccessDownloadable
Model identifiersStep3-VL-10B-Base
LicenseApache 2.0.StepFun Step3-VL-10B-Base model card
Published stagesThe model table lists Base and Chat as separate downloads.StepFun Step3-VL-10B-Base model card

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  • Step3-VL-10B combines a 1.8B PE-lang visual encoder with a Qwen3-8B decoder.

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