{"podcast":{"title":"DX Today | No-Hype Podcast & News About AI & DX","slug":"dx-today-no-hype-podcast-news-about-ai-dx-6434212","podcast_index_feed_id":6434212,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2207817.rss","website_url":"https://dxtoday.com/free-dxt-podcast","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/dwohat9h5b61o3j3b9bhs8v3q3f1?.jpg","author":"Rick Spair","episode_count":780,"summary":"The DX Today Podcast: Real Insights About AI and Digital Transformation Tired of AI hype and transformation snake oil? This isn't another sales pitch disguised as expertise. Join a 30+ year tech veteran and Chief AI Officer who's built $1.2 billion in real solutions—and has the battle scars to prove it. No vendor agenda. No sponsored content. Just unfiltered insights about what actually works in AI and digital transformation, what spectacularly fails, and why most \"expert\" advice misses the mark. If you're looking for honest perspectives from someone who's been in the trenches since before \"digital transformation\" was a buzzword, you've found your show. Real problems, real solutions, real talk. For executives, practitioners, and anyone who wants the truth about technology without the sales pitch.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-24T10:19:19.051595+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dx-today-no-hype-podcast-news-about-ai-dx-6434212"},"episode":{"title":"Forty Four on the Index, One Fifth the Price: StepFun's Six Hundred Billion Parameter Bid at the Frontier, September 20, 2026","slug":"forty-four-on-the-index-one-fifth-the-price-stepfun-s-six-hundred-billion-parameter-bid-at-the-frontier-september-20-2026","published_at":"2026-09-20T10:45:08+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dx-today-no-hype-podcast-news-about-ai-dx-6434212/forty-four-on-the-index-one-fifth-the-price-stepfun-s-six-hundred-billion-parameter-bid-at-the-frontier-september-20-2026","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dx-today-no-hype-podcast-news-about-ai-dx-6434212","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2207817/episodes/19832902-forty-four-on-the-index-one-fifth-the-price-stepfun-s-six-hundred-billion-parameter-bid-at-the-frontier-september-20-2026.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2207817/episodes/19832902-forty-four-on-the-index-one-fifth-the-price-stepfun-s-six-hundred-billion-parameter-bid-at-the-frontier-september-20-2026.mp3","summary":"Forty Four on the Index, One Fifth the Price: StepFun's Six Hundred Billion Parameter Bid at the Frontier, September 20, 2026 Shanghai startup StepFun released Step 5 Preview, a six hundred billion parameter sparse mixture of experts model that ties Kimi K3 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index while charging less than a fifth of the output price. Rick Spair and Laura dig into the architecture, the benchmark numbers, the verbosity problem hiding behind that attractive per token price...","meta_description":"Forty Four on the Index, One Fifth the Price: StepFun's Six Hundred Billion Parameter Bid at the Frontier, September 20, 2026 Shanghai startup StepFun rel…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":817,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/dx-today-no-hype-podcast-news-about-ai-dx-6434212/episodes/forty-four-on-the-index-one-fifth-the-price-stepfun-s-six-hundred-billion-parameter-bid-at-the-frontier-september-20-2026/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dx-today-no-hype-podcast-news-about-ai-dx-6434212/forty-four-on-the-index-one-fifth-the-price-stepfun-s-six-hundred-billion-parameter-bid-at-the-frontier-september-20-2026.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}