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A 10B Chinese model claims to beat models twenty times its size

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ModelScope's STEP3-VL-10B is claimed to beat models twenty times larger, while Gemini 3 Pro Preview now nearly rivals six-year-old humans on visual tasks.

Reported metric: 20x smaller

Reporting date: 2026-01-24 (not necessarily the event date)

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A 10B Chinese model claims to beat models twenty times its size
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Reporting date: 2026-01-24
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-01-24-step3-vl-beats-20x-larger
Claim: ModelScope's STEP3-VL-10B is claimed to beat models twenty times larger, while Gemini 3 Pro Preview now nearly rivals six-year-old humans on visual tasks.
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