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LongCat-2.0: The Stealth AI Model That Was Quietly Topping OpenRouter All Along

Decrypt · Jul 1, 2026, 8:18 PM · Also reported by 2 other sources

The 1.6 trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model spent two months disguised as "Owl Alpha" before Meituan claimed it—and it undercuts GPT-5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5 on price by a wide margin.

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VentureBeat AI Meituan open sources LongCat-2.0, the 1.6T, near-frontier agentic coding model that's been leading OpenRouter — trained entirely on Chinese chips Hacker News LongCat-2.0, a large-scale MoE model with 1.6T total and 48B Active

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LongCat-2.0: The Stealth AI Model That Was Quietly Topping OpenRouter All Along

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