Meituan releases LongCat-2.5
A 1.6T-parameter (48B active) native multimodal model for long-horizon agentic coding
Partly confirmed
The takeaway
It is available in LongCat chat and API; GitHub and Hugging Face releases are promised but not out yet.
Status
- Claim
Partly confirmed
- Our reporting
- Medium confidence
- Importance
- 3 of 5
- Last verified
- 2 November 2026
Your AI and this story
- GPT-6 Astra186 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.5125 days after its cutoff
- Gemini 4 Argon216 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7155 days after its cutoff
None of these four assistants can know about it. The closest, Claude Opus 5.5, stops 125 days before it.
Key facts
- 1.6T total, ~48B active parameters (TechNode, citing IT Home)
- Capabilities claimed: visual coding, creative design, 3D tasks, complex codebases and full software projects
- Open weights: planned, not released as of Nov 2
What happened
See summary. Benchmarks were not stated in the coverage we could read; Meituan’s own page was not checked.
Sources
3 sources from 3 sites. Numbers match the chips in the text.
3 sources: 3 press
Press
- TechNode: Meituan launches LongCat-2.5 (Nov 2)technode.com, press
- IT Home (Chinese)ithome.com, press
- Pandaily: Meituan Releases LongCat-2.5 (Nov 2)pandaily.com, press
Changes
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