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Meituan LongCat (美团龙猫)

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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.

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LeadershipJul 27, 2026
LongCat

Meituan denies rumors that LongCat (Meituan's AI model) model lead Pei Peng is leaving the company.

Meituan denies rumors that LongCat (Meituan's AI model) model lead Pei Peng is leaving
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