Step 5 Preview Launch Night 🚀 & AI Founders Meetup @SF
​We just launched Step 5 Preview, our new open-weights flagship LLM, and we'd love for you to be among the first to explore it up close.
​Co-hosted by StepFun and Together AI, this launch night brings together founders, developers, and AI builders for a model introduction and live Q&A, a panel on what’s worth building as AI models improve, and conversations over food and drinks.
​Step 5 Preview brings frontier-level performance to real-world agents, with open weights and affordable inference that make it easier to build and 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
​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 and building agents with it.
​7:15 PM · Panel: Build for the Next Model
​As models get better, what's still worth building? Founders and builders on product opportunities and lasting value.
​8:00 PM · Find Your Match
​Meet fellow founders, developers, and builders. Pick a sticker that reflects your role or interests, then use it to start a conversation over food and drinks.
​9:00 PM · Wrap-up
​Who Should Join
​Developers, founders, researchers, product teams, and 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, and reasoning capabilities. StepFun also works closely with intelligent devices, with its models deployed across smartphones, automotive, and 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 and reinforcement learning for creating frontier-level specialized models, and pre-training at massive scale for fully custom intelligence, all around a marketplace of leading open models that teams can run, adapt, and own. Trusted by Cursor, Decagon, ElevenLabs, Salesforce, and Zoom, Together serves 400+ trillion tokens a month.
​→ X: @togethercompute