Meituan open sources LongCat-2.0, the 1.6T, near-frontier agentic coding model that's been leading OpenRouter — trained entirely on Chinese chips
A few hours ago, Chinese delivery app company Meituan officially unveiled LongCat-2.0 on GitHub, Hugging Face, and its native platform, unmasking the model as the computational engine behind "Owl Alpha," the anonymous stealth model that has spent the last two months commanding global developer charts on OpenRouter.
Developed to fundamentally disrupt closed-source enterprise dominance in autonomous software engineering, the 1.6-trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) system brings a native 1-million-token context window to the public domain under a highly permissive, enterprise grade, commercially viable MIT license.
Commercial access to the architecture introduces a highly aggressive pricing tier, deploying a mechanism where all context-cache hits are processed completely free of charge, running alongside a time-limited "Token Pack" flash-sale paradigm. There's also a typical "pay-as-you-go" API for non-cache hits standard priced at $0.75/$2.95 per million tokens in/out.
However, a limited-time promotional discount aggressively slashes these operational expenditures down to $0.30...
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