Meituan Open-Sources a 1.6-Trillion-Parameter AI Agent Model Built Without Nvidia, Scoring Within a Point of Claude Opus 5 on Terminal Bench at a Fraction of the Price
Meituan’s LongCat-2.5 is an MIT-licensed, 1.6-trillion-parameter agent model trained on Chinese hardware and built to self-host on 194 Huawei Ascend chips. It nearly matches top US models on several agent benchmarks while selling API access for about €1 per million output tokens.
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