# StepFun and Qianli Technology Announce Comprehensive Strategic Partnership

- Category: Flash (快讯)
- Published: 2026-04-23T11:50:00.000Z
- Source date: 2026-04-23
- HTML: https://www.88z.ai/en/news/flash-20260423-06aef25e996b3dec
- Markdown: https://www.88z.ai/en/news/flash-20260423-06aef25e996b3dec.md
- Other language: https://www.88z.ai/news/flash-20260423-06aef25e996b3dec.md

StepFun and Qianli Technology have formed a comprehensive strategic partnership to co-develop a native intelligent driving foundation model. StepFun's open-source flagship model, Step 3.5 Flash, has achieved leading results in various benchmarks, backed by its deep layout in Agent foundation models and omni-modal technologies.

## At a glance

- StepFun and Qianli Technology co-build a native intelligent driving foundation model to break physical AI boundaries
- StepFun's open-source flagship model Step 3.5 Flash leads in benchmarks such as speech reasoning

## The update

StepFun and Qianli Technology have officially announced a comprehensive strategic partnership. The two parties will jointly build a "native intelligent driving foundation model," aiming to enable artificial intelligence to directly understand the complex physical world through bottom-up training, thereby breaking through the capability boundaries of physical AI. This collaboration marks a deep synergy between the two in the field of intelligent driving. Previously, StepFun had made deep layouts in Agent foundation models and omni-modal technologies. Its launched open-source flagship foundation model, Step 3.5 Flash, has achieved leading positions in multiple authoritative benchmarks, including speech reasoning and autonomous driving evaluations, laying a solid technical foundation for this cooperation.

## Sources

- [阶跃星辰](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/bJ6jBYFEWMop5D8ib_FPVw?scene=1) (2026-04-23)

This article is an AI-assisted synthesis by 88Z AI based on the public sources below. Product claims and availability are attributed to their publishers. It does not represent independent testing or first-hand reporting.