# Hugging Face — Architectural Choices in China's Open-Source AI Ecosystem: Building Beyond DeepSeek

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2026-01-27T15:01:45+00:00
- Category: new-model
- Subject: Platform
- Models affected: Step-Audio-R1.1
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/huggingface/one-year-since-the-deepseek-moment-blog-2
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1557-architectural-choices-in-china-s-open-source-ai-ecosystem-building-beyond

StepFun released Step-Audio-R1.1, a speech-to-speech model that boasts state-of-the-art performance, beating proprietary models.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/huggingface/one-year-since-the-deepseek-moment-blog-2:

> Their latest speech-to-speech model Step-Audio-R1.1 boasts state-of-the-art performance, beating proprietary models.

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