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Meituan launches 1.6T LongCat-2.5 model with 1M context for $0.30

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Meituan, a Chinese food delivery company, has released LongCat-2.5, a 1.6-trillion-parameter multimodal model with a 1-million-token context window. This model is designed for long-horizon agentic tasks and is priced competitively at $0.30 per million input tokens. Key architectural changes include native vision processing and enhanced reinforcement learning, trained on synthetic environments derived from real code repositories. While available via Meituan's API platform and select gateways, its weights are not yet open-sourced or independently tested. AI

IMPACT Sets a new benchmark for long-context model pricing and capability, potentially accelerating agent development.

RANK_REASON Frontier-lab model release with system card and benchmark claims. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Meituan launches 1.6T LongCat-2.5 model with 1M context for $0.30

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · ToolPilot Pro ·

    LongCat-2.5: 1.6T Parameters, 1M Context, $0.30 API

    <p>The most interesting AI lab of 2026 might be a food-delivery company. Meituan — the Chinese platform that delivers more meals than almost anyone on Earth — has spent two years quietly building a frontier model programme, and on <strong>November 2, 2026</strong> its LongCat tea…

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