# vision-language

Small, Open and Multimodal: Chinese Startup Releases 10‑Billion‑Parameter Vision‑Language Model Claiming SOTA Performance

Chinese start‑up Jieyue Xingchen open‑sourced Step3‑VL‑10B, a 10‑billion‑parameter multimodal model that the team says matches same‑scale state‑of‑the‑art performance on vision, reasoning, math and dialogue. The release highlights a push for efficient, deployable multimodal models and will prompt independent verification and community adoption.