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Meituan LongCat (美团龙猫)

Local-Services DispatchTotem · Long cat route

Known for: Efficient MoE models for agent/tool-use and local-services workflows.

Meituan-owned LongCat large-model family. LongCat-Flash-Chat was released and open-sourced September 1, 2025 as a 560B MoE model that activates roughly 18.6B-31.3B parameters per token and emphasizes efficient inference, agent/tool-use, and local-services workflows.

Founded
2025
Location
Beijing
Founders
Not listed
Parent / predecessor
Meituan (美团)
LongCat-Flash-ChatLongCat-Flash-ThinkingLongCat-Flash-OmniLongCat-ImageLongCat-VideoLongCat-Next
Revenue
Not disclosed
No lab revenue line
via Atlas estimate
ARR
N/A
Parent workflow fit; LongCat not broken out
via Atlas estimate
Valuation
Parent-owned
Meituan-owned team; no standalone lab valuation used
Funding raised
Internal
Internal platform funding, not comparable to venture rounds

News & coverage

Notable recent updates, newest first.

ISR 1 hour
ProductJul 2, 2026
LongCat (Meituan's AI model)

Meituan trained LongCat (Meituan's AI model)-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter MoE model, on 50,000 domestic GPUs — China's largest training run on domestic chips.

Exclusive Insider: How Meituan Trained a Trillion-Parameter 'LongCat (Meituan's AI model)' Model with 50,000 Domestic Cards
ProductJun 25, 2026
LongCat

LongCat (Meituan's AI model) open-sourced VitaBench 2.0, a benchmark for evaluating LLM agents in long-term dynamic user modeling.

LongCat (Meituan's AI model) open-sources VitaBench 2.0
Strategic investmentJun 11, 2026
LongCat (Meituan's AI model)

Meituan Longzhu disclosed a 9.65% stake in Unitree (Chinese: Unitree) worth over 400M RMB, and multiple rounds in Moonshot AI (Chinese: Moonshot; product: Moonshot).

From Wang Xingxing to Yang Zhilin: How Meituan Longzhu Invests in Tech
ProductJun 9, 2026
LongCat (Meituan's AI model)

Meituan GN06 launched Tabbit, a free AI browser integrating 10+ Chinese LLMs and Agent capabilities.

Permanently Free! Meituan's AI Browser Arrives, Integrates 10+ Top Models and Agent Add-ons
PartnershipJun 1, 2026
LongCat (Meituan's AI model)

Meituan's AI assistant 'Xiaomei' will soon integrate with Tencent's Yuanbao agent via partnership.

Meituan earnings call: 'Xiaomei' and Tencent's 'Yuanbao' partnership will go live soon, Meituan will deliver the best AI lifestyle service experience