// Hacker Noon · 20 February 2026

A 196B Model That Runs Like 11B: The Step 3.5 Flash Bet

Step 3.5 Flash shows how to get frontier reasoning without frontier bills—sparse experts, smarter routing, and MIS-PO RL that keeps training stable.

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