Meituan's LongCat-2.5 Lands as a 1.6-Trillion-Parameter Multimodal Agent Model

Chinese delivery giant Meituan released a massive multimodal agent model, underscoring how non-traditional players are now building frontier-scale systems.

The roster of companies building frontier-scale models keeps expanding into unexpected corners of the economy. As @soluunj reported, Meituan — China's food-delivery and local-services giant — released LongCat-2.5, a 1.6-trillion-parameter multimodal agent model. The scale alone puts it in frontier territory, and the fact that it comes from a delivery company rather than a dedicated AI lab is the real signal.

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