China’s Meituan open-sources massive LongCat-2.0 AI model, saying it was trained on domestic chips
Beijing, China-based Meituan Inc. today debuted its next-gen LongCat-2.0 open-source large language model, stating that the company trained the 1.6-trillion-parameter model on domestic Chinese chips and compute clusters.
The larger takeaway for this colossal model isn’t just the open-source release, it’s the domestic hardware throughline.
Meituan may initially seem like an unlikely place for AI models to come from. Often described as China’s answer to DoorDash, the company started as the country’s dominant food delivery platform but evolved into a combination of services that include travel and leisure booking, discovery and rating of local businesses and ride-hailing.
The company jumped into the AI model development scene as far back as 2023 when it acquired the startup Light Year Beyond for around $281 million, but did not announce its own internal plans to develop an AI model until 2025.
