BEIJING, June 30 - Meituan said on Tuesday it has put forward and will open-source LongCat-2.0, its next-generation large language model, which the company described as the world’s first trillion-parameter AI system both trained and run entirely on a domestic computing cluster built from 50,000 chips powered by Chinese-made processors.
The LongCat initiative, formed in 2023, released its first model late last year. Meituan did not specify how LongCat-2.0 will be woven into its existing services, although earlier iterations of LongCat have been used inside Meituan’s apps to power AI assistants that recommend restaurants and hotels and handle user tasks such as placing food orders and booking rooms. Those in-app functions are part of what the company and peers describe as an "agentic commerce" trend, which the article noted Alibaba has accelerated this year.
Meituan highlighted a couple of demonstration capabilities on LongCat’s official WeChat account, saying the model can construct a gaming website and draft a novel. The company said a preview release of LongCat-2.0 had already become one of the three most-used models on OpenRouter, a globally used AI marketplace.
LongCat-2.0 was trained from scratch on a cluster of 50,000 domestic chips and is reported to handle inputs up to 1 million tokens, enabling it to process ultra-long documents. Meituan described the model as targeted at agentic coding, with an architecture meant to improve reliability and efficiency when tackling real-world coding tasks.
On benchmark performance, Meituan claimed LongCat-2.0 matched or exceeded the results of several notable proprietary models on some coding and agent benchmarks, naming Google’s Gemini, OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 and Anthropic’s Claude Opus. The company also stated that the development demonstrates an ability to train large-scale models on domestic computing clusters, while not identifying the specific chipmaker involved.
Meituan’s emphasis on a Chinese-chip based training run underscores a broader push toward self-sufficiency in the domestic AI landscape. The company situates its announcement against a backdrop in which major Chinese AI players are working to cut reliance on U.S. chips after export controls imposed by Washington since 2022. The article noted that several domestic chipmakers, including Huawei and Enflame, have moved to supply capacity and win market share through partnerships with AI developers.
The company’s statement and the surrounding details do not disclose the commercial integration plan for LongCat-2.0 within Meituan’s suite of consumer services. Separately, the article observed that amid weak consumer sentiment and narrowing margins, Meituan may also be seeking to diversify revenue sources beyond its core food delivery and local services businesses.
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Contextual note: The facts presented above reflect Meituan’s claims and the company’s public statements about LongCat-2.0 as provided in its official communications and the accompanying announcement on LongCat’s WeChat account. The company did not name the chipmaker behind the domestic processors used in the reported training cluster.