AI Development

Meituan releases LongCat-2.5, a 1.6T-parameter multimodal agent model

November 2, 2026 · Medium importance · model

Meituan released LongCat-2.5, a native multimodal mixture-of-experts model with 1.6 trillion total parameters and approximately 48 billion active parameters per token, optimized for long-horizon agentic coding and visual tasks. The model is available via API with a 1-million-token context window and competitive token pricing; open weights are stated as forthcoming. Company-reported results position it competitively on selected agent and browsing benchmarks against frontier closed models.

Date
November 2, 2026
Importance
Medium 3/5
Category
model
Axis of Change
Capability Gain
Organizations
Meituan
Models Affected
LongCat-2.5
  1. 01 tech.meituan.com