Step 3.5 Flash: Efficient Frontier AI
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Step 3.5 Flash: Efficient Frontier AI

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What changed

Scalable RL with verifiable signals and preferences

Why it matters

Redefines efficiency for deploying advanced agents. Enables high-performance open models rivaling GPT-5.2 and Gemini 3.0.

What to do next

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Who should care:Researchers & Academics

Step 3.5 Flash is a 196B MoE model with 11B active params for agentic tasks. Optimized with sliding-window attention and MTP-3 for low-latency inference. Matches frontier models on math, code, and agent benchmarks.

Key Points

  • 1.Scalable RL with verifiable signals and preferences
  • 2.SOTA on IMO, LiveCodeBench, tau2-Bench
  • 3.Ideal for industrial agent deployment

Impact Analysis

Redefines efficiency for deploying advanced agents. Enables high-performance open models rivaling GPT-5.2 and Gemini 3.0.

Technical Details

Interleaved 3:1 attention, multi-token prediction. Stable off-policy RL training.

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