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StepFun / 阶跃星辰

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The documented history of StepFun / 阶跃星辰: chronology, people, research, capital and compute, and governance. Every statement opens its source and its limits.

Records dated 2023-04 to 2026-01-27 · 4 undated

9 claims · 2 sources · 9 not editorially accepted. The counts describe this selection. They do not measure completeness or independent confirmation.

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Description: AI company reported as established in April 2023.

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2023Record year · 1 claims
  1. 2023-04 · eventinstitutions

    Record about this institution · Stated in source · Supported Rests on reporting

    Qualification and date notes

    The record rests on reporting, not a company statement or registration record; StepFun’s website could not be rendered as text. English rendering of the Chinese passage is a machine translation; no human translation review.

    Month as reported; no company page stating the date could be retrieved.

2026Record year · 4 claims
  1. 2026-01-27 · snapshotpeople

    Record about this institution · Stated in source · Supported Rests on reporting

    Qualification and date notes

    The record rests on reporting, not a company announcement; it does not date the start of the role. English rendering of the Chinese passage is a machine translation; no human translation review.

    Date of the report; not a start date and not evidence of a current role.

  2. 2026-01-27 · snapshotpeople

    Record about this institution · Stated in source · Supported Rests on reporting

    Qualification and date notes

    The record rests on reporting, not the company’s own announcement (StepFun’s WeChat release could not be retrieved). The report also describes Yin Qi as founder of Megvii and chairman of Qianli Technology; those roles are not recorded here. English rendering of the Chinese passage is a machine translation; no human translation review.

    Date of the report; the announcement was reported as made at the same time. Not a start date.

  3. 2026-01-27 · snapshotpeople

    Record about this institution · Stated in source · Supported Rests on reporting

    Qualification and date notes

    The record rests on reporting, not a company announcement; it does not date the start of the role. English rendering of the Chinese passage is a machine translation; no human translation review.

    Date of the report; not a start date and not evidence of a current role.

  4. 2026-01-27 · snapshotpeople

    Record about this institution · Stated in source · Supported Rests on reporting

    Qualification and date notes

    The record rests on reporting, not a company announcement; it does not date the start of the role. English rendering of the Chinese passage is a machine translation; no human translation review.

    Date of the report; not a start date and not evidence of a current role.

Date unknownRecord year · 3 claims
  1. Date unknownpeople

    Record about this institution · Stated in source · Supported Rests on reporting

    Qualification and date notes

    Reporting on StepFun’s public debut, not a company statement. English rendering of the Chinese passage is a machine translation; no human translation review.

    No personal founding date; the company’s stated founding date is recorded separately.

  2. Date unknownpeople

    Record about this institution · Stated in source · Supported Rests on reporting

    Qualification and date notes

    The record rests on reporting; the wording is “core founding team”, not “co-founder”, and is kept as such. English rendering of the Chinese passage is a machine translation; no human translation review.

    No personal founding date; the company’s stated founding date is recorded separately.

  3. Date unknownpeople

    Record about this institution · Stated in source · Supported Rests on reporting

    Qualification and date notes

    The record rests on reporting; the wording is “core founding team”, not “co-founder”, and is kept as such. English rendering of the Chinese passage is a machine translation; no human translation review.

    No personal founding date; the company’s stated founding date is recorded separately.