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Meituan releases 1.6T parameter AI agent model trained on Chinese hardware

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Meituan has released LongCat-2.5, a 1.6-trillion-parameter AI agent model, with its weights now publicly available. This model was trained exclusively on Chinese hardware, specifically 194 Huawei Ascend chips, and notably did not use any Nvidia GPUs. On the Terminal Bench benchmark, LongCat-2.5 achieved a score of 88.4, placing it close to Claude Opus 5. AI

IMPACT Demonstrates capability for large-scale AI model training outside of traditional Nvidia GPU ecosystems.

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

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Meituan releases 1.6T parameter AI agent model trained on Chinese hardware

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  1. The Decoder TIER_1 English(EN) · Jonathan Kemper ·

    Meituan releases a 1.6-trillion-parameter agent model that never touched an Nvidia GPU

    <p><img alt="" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" height="1080" src="https://the-decoder.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/meituan-logo-wall-chatgpt-5.6.jpg" style="height: auto; margin-bottom: 10px;" width="1920" /></p> <p> Meituan has released the weights for LongCat-…

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