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Meituan launches LongCat-2.5 with 1M context, multimodal capabilities

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Meituan has released LongCat-2.5, a 1.6 trillion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model designed for long-horizon agentic tasks. The model boasts native multimodality, processing both text and visual information through a unified token stream. Key features include OpenAI and Anthropic-compatible API endpoints, a unique 'thinking' object that controls temperature settings, and a 1 million token context window. Meituan claims its benchmarks place LongCat-2.5 between Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and Opus 5, with introductory pricing set at $0.30 per 1 million tokens. AI

IMPACT This release offers a new option for long-context and multimodal agentic tasks, potentially influencing pricing and feature development among major LLM providers.

RANK_REASON New model release from a significant tech company (Meituan) with detailed technical specifications and benchmark comparisons. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Meituan launches LongCat-2.5 with 1M context, multimodal capabilities

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Yong Yu ·

    LongCat-2.5 at $0.30/$1.20: Thinking Locks Temperature, 1M Context, and Vendor Benches Between Opus 4.8 and 5

    <blockquote> <p><strong>Attributed compile + one small offline run on my box</strong><br /><br /> <strong>Primary source:</strong> <a href="https://longcat.ai/blog/longcat-2.5/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Introducing LongCat-2.5 — Native Multimodality for Agentic Tasks</a> by <str…

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