China’s Meituan open-sources massive LongCat-2.0 AI model, saying it was trained on domestic chips

Beijing, China-based Meituan Inc. today debuted its next-gen LongCat-2.0 open-source large language model, stating that the company trained the 1.6-trillion-parameter model on domestic Chinese chips and compute clusters. The larger takeaway for this colossal model isn’t just the open-source release, it’s the domestic hardware throughline.