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Meituan releases open-weight multimodal coding agent LongCat-2.5

Meituan has released the open weights for its LongCat-2.5 multimodal coding agent under an MIT license, allowing developers to deploy it in-house. This new version can process screenshots and video, achieving a score of 88.4 on the Terminal Bench v2.1, a significant improvement from its predecessor's 70.8. The model is available for hosted API calls at a rate of $0.30 per million input tokens. AI

IMPACT Enables in-house deployment of a multimodal coding agent, potentially accelerating development and research in AI-powered coding tools.

RANK_REASON Release of open weights for a multimodal coding agent. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Meituan releases open-weight multimodal coding agent LongCat-2.5

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    Meituan has published the open weights of LongCat-2.5 under an MIT licence, so developers can run a multimodal coding agent in-house. It reads screenshots and v

    Meituan has published the open weights of LongCat-2.5 under an MIT licence, so developers can run a multimodal coding agent in-house. It reads screenshots and video and scores 88.4 on Terminal Bench v2.1, up from 70.8 for its predecessor. Hosted API calls cost 0.30 USD per millio…