StepFun (阶跃星辰) has officially launched StepClaw, a cloud-based AI assistant built on the wildly popular open-source OpenClaw agent framework. Addressing the complexity that has kept "lobster farming" out of reach for average users, StepClaw offers one-click deployment through the StepFun AI app, eliminating the need for command-line expertise. To celebrate the launch, StepFun is offering 50,000 free trial spots that include a comprehensive package: 50 million model tokens, cloud server resources, and storage — all free for one month. Powered by StepFun's own Step 3.5 Flash model — the current #1 most-called model on OpenClaw globally — StepClaw brings enterprise-grade agent capabilities to everyday users .

Chinese AI startup StepFun has open-sourced Step3-VL-10B, a groundbreaking 10-billion parameter vision-language model that outperforms models 20x its size. Achieving state-of-the-art results across multiple benchmarks, this release challenges the "bigger is better" paradigm and democratizes access to cutting-edge multimodal AI capabilities.